<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet II</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair,<br> And to the deaf sea pour thy frantic cries?<br> Before the gale the laden vessel flies;<br>The Heavens all-favoring smile, the breeze is fair;<br>Hark to the clamors of the exulting crew!<br> Hark how their thunders mock the patient skies!<br> Why dost thou shriek and strain thy red-swoln eyes<br>As the white sail dim lessens from thy view?<br>Go pine in want and anguish and despair,<br> There is no mercy found in human-kind--<br>Go Widow to thy grave and rest thee there!<br> But may the God of Justice bid the wind<br>Whelm that curst bark beneath the mountain wave,<br>And bless with Liberty and Death the Slave!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southey">Robert Southey</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508077" data-title="Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet II de Robert Southey" data-description="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 all-favoring smile, the breeze is fair; Hark to the clamors of the exulting crew! Hark how their ..."></div> </div> </div>

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