 What, ho! our countrymen in chains! The whip on woman's shrinking flesh! Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh! What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market...  The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ... - Page 127by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 256 pages
...stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! — What ! God's own image bought and sold ! Americans...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us — whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; — To us whose boast is loud... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 240 pages
...stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! — What ! God's own image bought and sold ! Americans...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us — whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain; — To us whose boast is loud... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - American poetry - 1836 - 236 pages
...Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What! mothers from their children riven !— What ! Ood's own image bought and sold ! Americans to market driven,...agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain 1 To us—whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain;— To us whose boast is loud... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 536 pages
...the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh 1 What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS...us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy liberty and light, Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong, Plead vainly for their plundered Right? What ! shall... | |
 | African American songs - 1845 - 234 pages
...reddening with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and What ! mothers from their children riven ! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven! What ' God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold ! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1850 - 408 pages
...the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS...us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light — Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong, Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What ! mothers from their children riven ! What ! God's own image bought and sold ! AMERICANS...us, whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light — Say, shall these writhing slaves of Wrong, Plead vainly for their plundered Right 3 What... | |
 | 1853 - 188 pages
...with the stains, Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market driven, And bartered as the brute for goM! Speak ! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain? To us whose fathers... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...was soon noticed by Clotel. CHAPTEE V. THE SLAVE MARKET. " WHAT ! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And barter'd as the brute for gold."— Whittier. NOT far from Canal-street, in the city of New Orleans,... | |
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