 THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP. IN dark fens of the Dismal Swamp The hunted Negro lay ; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times a horse's tramp And a bloodhound's distant bay. "Where will-o'-the-wisps and glow-worms shine, In bulrush and...  Poems on Slavery - Side 19af Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 31 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John William Carleton - 1867 - 1254 sider
...with pleasurable excitement they might have to tell us of doings in regions occasionally, perhaps, " Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart would dare." The wolf may fairly enough brag of being " the best abused" brute in creation ; nevertheless there... | |
 | 1843 - 404 sider
...saw the fire of the midulght camp And heard at times a horse's trnmp, And a bloodhound's distant hay. Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart...dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass, He erouched in the rank and tangled grass; Like a wild beast m his lair. A poor old slave, infirm and... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 282 sider
...the Dismal Swamp The hunted negro lay; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times the horse's tramp, And a bloodhound's distant bay. " Where...could pass, Or a human heart would dare, — On the qnaking turf of the green morass Eb crouched in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beast in his... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 276 sider
...the Diamal Swamp The hunted negro lay ; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times the horse's tramp, And a bloodhound's distant bay. " Where...foot could pass, Or a human heart would dare, — On iii'j quaking turf of the green morass II: orouohed in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beast... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 316 sider
...growj, aud the ршшюм Tin* In spotted like the snake; " Where hardly я human foot could ¡MUS, Or a human heart would dare, — On the quaking turf of the green тогам He crvmohed in the rank aud tangled graea, . Like л wild beo*t in hie lair. 14 A poor old... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 sider
...the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Is spotted like the snake; 164 THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP. Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart...would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass Ho crouched in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beaut in his lair. A poor old slave, infirm... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 348 sider
...heard at times a horse's trump, And a bloodhound's distant bay. Where hardly a human foot could pan, Or a human heart would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass, He crouched in the rank nnd tangled grass; Like a wild beast in his lair. A poor old slare, infirm and lame ; Great scars deformed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 sider
...shroud the pine, And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or human heart would dare, On the quaking turf of the...morass He crouched in the rank and tangled grass, lake a wild beast in his lair. A poor old slave, infirm and lame ; Great scars deformed his face ;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 sider
...mosses shroud the pine, And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Is spotted like the snake ; \Vhere hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass He couched in the rank and tangled grass, Like a wild beast in his lair. A poor old slave, infirm and... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1865 - 432 sider
...clay, he feels his danger and his desolate condition. How dreary and how dreadful is this place ! — " Where hardly a human foot could pass, Or a human heart...would dare, On the quaking turf of the green morass, His all he had trusted there." But CHRISTIAN now looks elsewhere for help, and makes every effort to... | |
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