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| Search results for: sonnet | Found 863 Poems |
| 612. | Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet I by Robert Southey | | Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain
Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood?
For ever must your Nigers tainted flood
Roll to the r... |
| 613. | Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet II by Robert Southey | | Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair,
And to the deaf sea pour thy frantic cries?
Before the gale the laden vessel flies;
The Heavens ... |
| 614. | 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... |
| 615. | 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... |
| 616. | 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... |
| 617. | 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... |
| 618. | Sonnet 01 by Robert Southey | | Go Valentine and tell that lovely maid
Whom Fancy still will pourtray to my sight,
How her Bard lingers in this sullen shade,
This dreary gloom of ... |
| 619. | Sonnet 02 by Robert Southey | | Think Valentine, as speeding on thy way
Homeward thou hastest light of heart along,
If heavily creep on one little day
The medley crew of traveller... |
| 620. | Sonnet 03 by Robert Southey | | Not to thee Bedford mournful is the tale
Of days departed. Time in his career
Arraigns not thee that the neglected year
Has past unheeded onward. T... |
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