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| 3781. | Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet III by Robert Southey | | Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run
Down his dark cheek; hold--hold thy merciless hand,
Pale tyrant! for beneath thy hard command
O'erwearie... |
| 3782. | Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet IV by Robert Southey | | 'Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep
As undisturb'd as Justice! but no more
The wretched Slave, as on his native shore,
Rests on his reedy couch... |
| 3783. | Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet V by Robert Southey | | Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword
Of Vengeance? drench'd he deep its thirsty blade
In the cold bosom of his tyrant lord?
Oh! who shall... |
| 3784. | Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet VI by Robert Southey | | High in the air expos'd the Slave is hung
To all the birds of Heaven, their living food!
He groans not, tho' awaked by that fierce Sun
New torturer... |
| 3785. | Porlock by Robert Southey | | Porlock! thy verdant vale so fair to sight,
Thy lofty hills which fern and furze imbrown,
The waters that roll musically down
Thy woody glens, the ... |
| 3786. | Sappho - A Monodrama by Robert Southey | | Argument.
To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be
a remedy for hopeless love, if the self-devoted victim escaped ... |
| 3787. | The Pauper's Funeral by Robert Southey | | What! and not one to heave the pious sigh!
Not one whose sorrow-swoln and aching eye
For social scenes, for life's endearments fled,
Shall drop a t... |
| 3788. | The Triumph Of Woman by Robert Southey | | Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost
To reach secure at length his native coast,
Who wandering long o'er distant lands has sped,
The night-blas... |
| 3789. | To Contemplation by Robert Southey | | Faint gleams the evening radiance thro' the sky,
The sober twilight dimly darkens round;
In short quick circles the shrill bat flits by,
And the sl... |
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