 I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of...  Poems - Page 89by Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Joel Augustus Rogers - Social Science - 1987 - 212 pages
...dive and they shall run Catch the wild goat by the hair and hurl their lances in the sun. Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miser* erable books. But now speaks second nature, intellectual development or Pride, one and the same... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - History - 1996 - 352 pages
...man is superior to the lower animals, so civilized white people are superior to dark-skinned savages "with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains,...beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains!"32 In this early poem, Tennyson foresaw only perpetual progress and the dawning of universal... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - Poetry - 1994 - 644 pages
...and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,...fancy! but I know my words are wild, But I count the grey barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious... | |
 | James Eli Adams - History - 1995 - 264 pages
...savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race . . . (167-68) — only to abruptly repudiate the dream: I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious...with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! (175-76) This overt racism at the heart of one of the most famous credos of the Victorian period is... | |
 | Werner Senn - American literature - 1996 - 294 pages
...and they shall run. Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks....with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books - (697-698). Bailey disapproved of these lines in Tennyson's poem, and they reminded the educator of... | |
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