 | African American songs - 1845 - 234 pages
...While the mother was left in anguish to pine ; But reason departed, and she sank broken hearted, . In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning mother, of reason...cold in death : Thus died that slave mother, poor heart broken mother, In sorrow and woe. Oh ! list ye kind mothers to the cries of the slave ; The parents... | |
 | H. S. Gilmore - 1846 - 58 pages
...While the mother was left in arr'iiish to pine ; But reason departed, and she si.nk broken hearted, In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning mother, of reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows and sank C'U.1 in deith : Thus died that slave mother, poor he .rt broken mother, In s^.-fow and woe. Oh ! list... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...clime, While the mother was left in anguish to pine, But reason departed, and she sunk broken hearted, In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning mother, of reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows, and sunk cold in death ; Thus died that slave mother, poor heart-broken mother, In sorrow and woe. Oh!... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...hearted, In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning mother, of reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows, and sunk cold in death; Thus died that slave mother, poor heart-broken mother, In sorrow and woe. HYMN TO THE FLOWERS. BY EORACE SMITH. Day stars! that ope your eyes with morn to twinkle From rainbow... | |
 | Henry Watson - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 62 pages
...far distant clime, While the Mother was left in anguish to pine ; But reason departed, and she sunk broken-hearted, In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning...Mother, of Reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows, and sunk cold in death ; Thus died that Slave Mother, poor heart-broken Mother, In sorrow and woe. % Oh... | |
 | Henry Watson - African Americans - 1850 - 76 pages
...far distant clime, While the Mother was left in anguish to pine ; But reason departed, and she sunk broken-hearted, In sorrow and woe. That poor mourning...Mother, of Reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows, and sunk cold in death ; Thus died that Slave Mother, poor heart-broken Mother, In sorrow and woe. Oh !... | |
 | William Craft - Fugitive slaves - 1860 - 128 pages
...was the anguish of that slave mother's heart, When called from her darlings for ever to part ; The poor mourning mother of reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows, and sank cold in death." Antoinette, the flower of the family, a girl who was much beloved by all who knew her, for her Christ-like... | |
 | William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates - Literary Collections - 2000 - 1066 pages
...deep was the anguish of that slave mother's heart, When called from her darlings for ever to part; The poor mourning mother of reason bereft, Soon ended her sorrows, and sank cold in death." Antoinette, the flower of the family, a girl who was much beloved by all who knew her, for her Christ-like... | |
 | C. L. Innes - History - 2002 - 336 pages
...deep was the anguish ofthat slave mother's heart, When called from her darlings for ever to part; The poor mourning mother of reason bereft Soon ended her sorrows, and sank cold in death. (pu) When Antoinette, described as a paragon of beauty, Christ-like piety, and intelligence, is sold... | |
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Her brain reel'd with madness, that mother was wild ; Then the lash could not smother the shrieks of that mother, Of sorrow and woe. The child was borne off to a far distant clime, While the mother was left in anguish to pine, But reason departed, and... 