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. The American Whig Review - Page 3331851Full view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 346 pages
...saw his Native Laud. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode...heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck, they kissed... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1887 - 140 pages
...saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Bookbinding - 1890 - 352 pages
...saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1893 - 360 pages
...saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark -eyed queen Among her children stand : They clasped his neck,... | |
| David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand; They clasped his neck... | |
| Henry Stephens Salt - English poetry - 1893 - 386 pages
...saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
| 1894 - 264 pages
...land. 2. Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm trees on the plain Once more a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans 3. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck, they kissed... | |
| Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...saw his native land. " Wide through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a king he strode...heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. " He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck, they kissed... | |
| Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Niger flowed ; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain io Once more a king he strode; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw once more his dark-eyed queen Among her children stand ; They clasped his neck,... | |
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