<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet IV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep<br> As undisturb'd as Justice! but no more<br> The wretched Slave, as on his native shore,<br>Rests on his reedy couch: he wakes to weep!<br>Tho' thro' the toil and anguish of the day<br> No tear escap'd him, not one suffering groan<br> Beneath the twisted thong, he weeps alone<br>In bitterness; thinking that far away<br>Tho' the gay negroes join the midnight song,<br> Tho' merriment resounds on Niger's shore,<br>She whom he loves far from the chearful throng<br> Stands sad, and gazes from her lowly door<br>With dim grown eye, silent and woe-begone,<br> And weeps for him who will return no more.</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=508079" data-title="Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet IV de Robert Southey" data-description="'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: he wakes to weep! Tho' thro' the toil and anguish of the day No tear escap'd him, not one suffe..."></div> </div> </div>

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