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" 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. "
Exercitationes iambicæ; or Progressive exercises in Greek iambic verse - Page 164
by Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1831 - 492 pages
...Mine shall thy fetters be Never ; no never ! Brighton. WMW THE SLAVE'S DREAM. Beside th'ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand ; His breast was bare, hia matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his native land....
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Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse

Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 194 pages
...(simplicitas). See Exercise LIV. 6, 8, note. Observe the apposition in line 2. EXERCISE LVII I. (Longfellow). His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, 5 He saw his native land. 1, 2. The slave rested stretched beside (ad) the unfathered (intonsus) rice:...
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Poems on Slavery

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 60 pages
...this dire eclipse, This Day of Wrath, this Endless Wail, This dread Apocalypse ! THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, hi the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land. 11 Wide through the landscape of his dreams...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

1843 - 418 pages
...into trouble ; but we will venture upon half, and trust to the author's clemency. THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE, the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in...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...
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The Monthly Review

1843 - 574 pages
...painting in the colours and pleading in the strain of our poet. Let him tell us of " The Slave's Dream." Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...a king he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain-road. He saw mice more his dark-eyed-queen Among her children stand ; They clasped...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...this dire eclipse, This Day of Wrath, this Endless Wail, This dread Apocalypse ! THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...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...
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The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion, ed. by mrs. Edward Thomas

Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1850 - 300 pages
...ungathered rice he lay, With sickle in his hand ; His hreast was hare — his matted hair Was huried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,...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...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 308 pages
...Our deeds are all of them component elements of success."* THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...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...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 302 pages
...Our deeds are all of them component elements of success."* THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BY HENRT W. LONGFRLLOW. Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...; Beneath the palm-trees on the plain Once more a kin; he strode ; And heard the tinkling caravans Descend the mountain road. He saw once more his dark...
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Poems on slavery, early poems, additional poems, and ballads

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...this dire eclipse, This Day of Wrath, this Endless Wail, This dread Apocalypse ! THE SLAVE'S DREAM. BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his...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...
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