 Songs of triumph, and ascriptions, Such as reached the swart Egyptians, When upon the Red Sea coast Perished Pharaoh and his host. And the voice of his devotion Filled my soul with strange emotion; For its tones by turns were glad, Sweetly solemn, wildly...  Poems on Slavery - Side 21af Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 31 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Jairus Lincoln - 1843 - 110 sider
...Freedom!" Tell him that rescue is nigh. The Slave at Midnight. WORDS BY PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW. i ^ II. Loud he sang the psalm of David, He a negro and enslaved, Eiz-tfiBEf^S 2. And the voice of his devotion, Filled my soul with strange emotion, __—_ i ^-11 )... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 sider
...Swamp The hunted Negro lay ; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times a horse's tramp Where will-o'-the-wisps and glow-worms shine, In bulrush...David ! He, a Negro and enslaved, Sang of Israel's victor}-, Sang of Zion, bright and free. In that hour, when night is calmest, Sang he from the Hebrew... | |
 | 1854 - 428 sider
...more stirring poem in our language, than "The Slave's Dream," Loud he sung the psnlms of David ! Me, a Negro, and enslaved, Sang of Israel's victory, Sang of Zion bright and free. Beside the ungathered rice he lay. His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 sider
...On him alone the curse of Cain Fell, like a Hail on the garnered And struck him to the earth ! Hi", THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT. LOUD he sang the Psalm...of Israel's victory, Sang of Zion, bright and free. lu that hour, when night is calmest, Sang he from the Hebrew Psalmist, In a voice so sweet and clear... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 sider
...abyss ; They cry, from unknown graves, " We are the Witnesses ! " THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT. Lotm he sang the Psalm of David ! He, a Negro and enslaved, Sang of Isracl's vietory, Sang of Zion, bright and free. In that hour, when night is calmest, Sang he from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 sider
...woes of Slaves ; They glare from the ahyss ; They cry, from unknown graves, "We are the Witnesses !" THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT. LOUD he sang the Psalm...enslaved, Sang of Israel's victory, Sang of Zion, hright and free. In that hour, when night is calmest, Sang he from the Hehrew Psalmist, In a voice... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 sider
...daily bread. It is their prayers, which never cease, That clothe her with such grace; THE SLAVE IS THE DISMAL SWAMP. IN dark fens of the Dismal Swamp...of Israel's victory, Sang of Zion, bright and free. Songs of triumph, and ascriptions, Such as reached the swart Egyptians, When upon the Red Sea coast... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 588 sider
...the gay the joyous years •"' " Or why should memory love to trace youth's glad and sunlit way ?" " Loud he sang the psalm of David, He, a negro and enslaved." " And the voice of his devotion Filled my soul with strange emotion." " For its tones by turns were... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 90 sider
...— the gay the joyous years ?" " Or why should memory love to trace youth's glad and sunlit way ?" " Loud he sang the psalm of David He, a negro and enslaved." " And the voice , of his devotion Filled my soul with strange emotion." " For its tones by turns were... | |
 | Gustavus D. Pike - 1874 - 230 sider
...Singers. Did Longfellow know of their singing or their coming ? Surely he did when he wrote the poem of the slave singing at midnight. " 'Loud he sang the...of Israel's victory, Sang of Zion, bright and free. And the voice of his devotion Filled my soul with strange emotion ;: For its tones by turns were glad,... | |
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