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Page 4
... rise , the billows roll , Still with strong impulse turning to the pole , True as the sun is to the morning true , Though light as film , and trembling as the dew . Then man no longer plied with timid oar , And failing heart , along the ...
... rise , the billows roll , Still with strong impulse turning to the pole , True as the sun is to the morning true , Though light as film , and trembling as the dew . Then man no longer plied with timid oar , And failing heart , along the ...
Page 6
... rise ! ' Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone ; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone , The eye of evening , brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut to rest : • Whither , O , golden Venus ! art thou ...
... rise ! ' Thoughtful he wander'd on the beach alone ; Mild o'er the deep the vesper planet shone , The eye of evening , brightening through the west Till the sweet moment when it shut to rest : • Whither , O , golden Venus ! art thou ...
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... rise , Springs from the , dust , and blossoms to the skies ; Dead to the joys of light and life , the slave Clings to the clod ; his root is in the grave ; Bondage is winter , darkness , death , despair , Freedom the sun , the sea , the ...
... rise , Springs from the , dust , and blossoms to the skies ; Dead to the joys of light and life , the slave Clings to the clod ; his root is in the grave ; Bondage is winter , darkness , death , despair , Freedom the sun , the sea , the ...
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... rise in judgment from their gloomy beds , And call down vengeance on their murderers ' heads . Yet small the number , and the fortune blest , Of those who on the stormy deep found rest , Weigh'd with the unremember'd millions more ...
... rise in judgment from their gloomy beds , And call down vengeance on their murderers ' heads . Yet small the number , and the fortune blest , Of those who on the stormy deep found rest , Weigh'd with the unremember'd millions more ...
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... swoln with hurricanes the billows rise , To meet the lightning midway from the skies ; When from the unburthen'd hold his shrieking slaves Are cast , at midnight , to the hungry waves ; Not for his victims strangled in the deeps , Not 42.
... swoln with hurricanes the billows rise , To meet the lightning midway from the skies ; When from the unburthen'd hold his shrieking slaves Are cast , at midnight , to the hungry waves ; Not for his victims strangled in the deeps , Not 42.
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Adorn'd Africa age to age Albion's amidst arms beams beauty behold beneath beneath the sky birth blest bloom brave breast breath Casas Charib clime Creole curse dark death deep despair dust earth eternal Euphrates fire flood flowers gloom glory GLOW-WORM gold grace grave Greenland gulph Harp heart heaven hope hyæna isles joys land light lyre Mammon morn mother mountains Muse mysterious Nature's Negro Niger night Note numbers o'er ocean Paradise peace plains Pleiades POEMS prey race rage reigns rest rise roll roll'd rose round Rush'd secret shade shadow shine shore Sire skies Slave Trade slumbers smiled song Sorrow soul Spain spectre spirit Spring spurn'd star storms sublime suffering sweet thee thine thou tide toil tomb tree trembles turn'd tyrant vale vengeance verdure voice WANDERER waves weeps WEST INDIES Where'er wild Willow wind woes Yellow Fever yoke youth