 The Slave's Dream BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly...  Poems on Slavery - Page 11de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 31 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 pages
...war-denouncing trumpet toot, And blew a blast, so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ' Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his native land.' ' If good we plant not, vice will fill the... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1863 - 438 pages
...associates slavery with this harvest in his poem, " The Slave's Dream." " Beside the unfathered liice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his native land." But this is not universally the case. Many... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...Wrath, this Endless Wail, This dread Apocalypse ! THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE the ungatliered rice he lav, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...was written, a feeble testimony of my admiration fur * great and good man. ] TO WILLIAM E. CRANNING. THE pages of thy book I read, And as I closed each...bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The... | |
 | Forget - 1864 - 202 pages
...fellow-ereature I E. fl. BARRETT. M THE SLAVE'S DREAM. liK-niK. the ungathered riee he lay, Hi? siekle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landseape of his dreams The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...words are great and bold; At times they seem to me Like Luther's, in the days of old, Half -battles for the free. Go on, until this land revokes The old...bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ;... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse, Be yours to bring man nearer unto man ! ' Longfellow. THE SLAVE'S DREAM. Beside the ungathered rice he lay,...breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the eand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw hia Native Land. Wide through the landscape of... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pages
...never sorrow'd ; But from then she never smil'd. M, Arnold. . THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE the ungather'd rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was...bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand ; Again in the mist and shadow of sleep He saw his native land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...words are great and bold ; At times they seem to me, Like Luther's, in the days of old, Half-hattles for the free. Go on, until this land revokes The old...rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was hare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native... | |
 | Golden gift - 1868 - 168 pages
...Kneel, then, in deep humility, And pray, my child, for God is near. THE SLAVE'S DREAM. [LONGFELLOW.] BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The... | |
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