In pestilential barks they cross'd the flood ; Then were the wretched ones asunder torn, To distant isles, to separate bondage borne, Denied, though sought with tears, the sad relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. The African Repository - Page 681854Full view - About this book
| James Montgomery - English poetry - 1810 - 218 pages
...on their prey, They caught, they bound, they drove them far away ; The white man bought them at the mart of blood ; In pestilential barks they cross'd...relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. 8 The negro, spoiled of all that nature gave, The freebbrn man, thus shrunk into a slave, His passive... | |
| James Montgomery - 1821 - 294 pages
...Forth sprang the ambushed ruffians on their prey, They caught, they bound, they drove them far away ; Denied, though sought with tears, the sad relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. The Negro, spoiled of all that nature gave The free-born man, thus shrunk into a slave, His passive... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...on their prey, They caught, they bound, they drove them far away ; The white man bought them at the mart of blood ; In pestilential barks they cross'd the flood ; Then were the wretched ones asnnder torn, To distant isles, to separate bondage borne, Denied, though sought with tears, the sad... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...on their prey. They caught, they bound, they drove them far away ; The white man bought them at the mart of blood ; In pestilential barks they cross'd...though sought with tears, the sad relief That misery ˇoves, — the fellowship of grief. The Negro, spoil'd of all that nature gave To freeborn man, thus... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...drove them for away; The white man bought them at the mart of blood; In pestilential barks they crose'd the flood ; Then were the wretched ones asunder torn....distant isles, to separate bondage borne. Denied, ihough sought with tears, the sad relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. The Negro,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...them far away ; The white man bought them at the mart of blood ; In pestilential barks they crossed the flood ; Then were the wretched ones asunder torn,...relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. XI. THE SLAVE TRADE. Kxtract from Mr. Wilberforce's Speech, delivered on the 3d of April, 1792, in... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...on their prey, They caught, they bound, they drove them far away ; The white man bought them at the mart of blood ; ' In pestilential barks they cross'd...relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. The negro, spoiled of all that nature gave — / The freeborn man, thus shrunk into a slave ; His passive... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...ruffian« on their prey, They caught, they bound, they drove them faraway; The white man bought them at the mart of blood ; In pestilential barks they cross'd...relief That misery loves, — the fellowship of grief. The Negro, spoil'd of all that nature gave To free born man, thus shrunk into a slave : His passive... | |
| Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1836 - 380 pages
...of blood, In peatilential barks they cross'd the flood ; Then were the wretched ones a»under lorn. To distant isles, to separate bondage borne, Denied,...though sought with tears, the sad relief That misery IT. c- — the fellowship of grief." — Mantgonury. THE family were now together, and Caroline, having... | |
| Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...them far away ; The white man bought them at the mart of blood, In pestilential barks they cross M the flood ; Then were the wretched ones asunder torn,...relief That misery loves — the fellowship of grief." — Montgomery. THE family were now together, and Caroline, having just risen from a short recreation... | |
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