Search Details

Word: opprest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...once more their natal shore, All stain'd with carnage, red with human gore; Shrouded in blood they now appear'd to stand, And pointed to their agonizing land; I saw the thousands, thousands, thousands slain, On their primeval, their parental plain; Their lacerated limbs, with chains opprest, Their minds, alas! with mighty woes distrest! Each body mangled, scourged in every part, While sighs and groans burst from each swelling heart! I saw in tides of tears their sorrows flow, And still new anguish added to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poems excerpted from 'Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810' | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

Heard I with tears opprest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAS SCHLOSS AM MEER. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

| 1 |