 | Phillis Wheatley - 1909 - 108 sayfa
...enthron'd with Cherubs in the realms of day. Ufa tljr Ininr raitg of (Eambriiigr, in 5fo ni-l£nglan& While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses...Egyptian gloom : Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. Students, to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heightsAbove,... | |
 | Richard A. Long, Eugenia W. Collier - 2010 - 781 sayfa
...flowing sea, Cease then, my song, cease th' unequal lay. To the University of Cambridge, in New England WHILE an intrinsic ardor prompts to write. The muses...since I left my native shore The land of errors, and Egyptians gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas tby gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark ahodes.... | |
 | Frank Shuffelton - 1993 - 295 sayfa
...into American slavery as a paradoxical Christian deliverance out of the bondage of African paganism: 'Twas not long since I left my native shore The land...Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. In the remainder of the poem, the "intrinsic ardour" of... | |
 | Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti - 1996 - 296 sayfa
...Folarin Shyllon, Black People in Britain 1555-1833, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 195-198. 9 'Twas not long since I left my native shore The land...Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy! 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. 10 Peter Fryer, Staving Power, London, Pluto Press, 1982,... | |
 | Martha C. Nussbaum - 1997 - 358 sayfa
...the moral force of the Christian teaching that has rescued her from brute sensuality and darkness. While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses...Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes.4 Wheatley depicts her poetic impulse as "intrinsic." But,... | |
 | Samuel A. Hay - 1997 - 322 sayfa
...University of Cambridge, in New-England" — four lines which Bullins used in the beginning of the play: " Twas not long since I left my native shore / The land...gloom: / Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand / Brought me in safety from those dark abodes." Wheatley appears to have exhibited a low race-esteem,... | |
 | Rafia Zafar - 1997 - 270 sayfa
...Jesus' blood for your redemption flows. (15) Wheatley's prefacing these lines with the remark that " 'Twas not long since I left my native shore / The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom" (15) does not appear calculated to elevate the poet to more than a bard from an unenlightened land.... | |
 | G. J. Barker-Benfield, Catherine Clinton - 1998 - 626 sayfa
...her didactic theme, Phillis Wheatley describes the world from which she came: Twas not long since 1 left my native shore The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. (5) This is a different picture of Africa from the one... | |
 | Wilson Jeremiah Moses - 1998 - 330 sayfa
...of Israel, delivered from a dark African bondage, which was well symbolized in the following verse. 'Twas not long since I left my native shore The land of Error and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy! 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those... | |
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While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses promise to assist my pen; 'Twas not long since I left my native shore The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. 
