"Minds are never to be sold"
— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Date
June, 1788
Metaphor
"Minds are never to be sold"
Metaphor in Context
Forced from home and all its pleasures,
Afric's coast I left forlorn,
To increase the stranger's treasures,
O'er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though slave they have enroll'd me,
Minds are never to be sold.
(ll. 1-8, p. 13)
Afric's coast I left forlorn,
To increase the stranger's treasures,
O'er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though slave they have enroll'd me,
Minds are never to be sold.
(ll. 1-8, p. 13)
Categories
Provenance
Searching HDIS (Poetry); variant in Stuart's Star: "But tho' theirs they have enroll'd me"
Citation
At least 19 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1793, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800).
Originally appeared in the London General Magazine, ed. T. Bellamy II (June 1788), 323-4. See also "The Negro's Complaint" Stuart's Star, and Evening Advertiser, No. 43 (Thursday, April 2, 1789). <Link to Burney Collection>
Also See Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In Two Volumes. (London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1798), 1:331-3.<Link to ECCO>
Text from Cowper, William, The Poems of William Cowper, 3 vols, Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), III.
Originally appeared in the London General Magazine, ed. T. Bellamy II (June 1788), 323-4. See also "The Negro's Complaint" Stuart's Star, and Evening Advertiser, No. 43 (Thursday, April 2, 1789). <Link to Burney Collection>
Also See Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In Two Volumes. (London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1798), 1:331-3.<Link to ECCO>
Text from Cowper, William, The Poems of William Cowper, 3 vols, Ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), III.
Date of Entry
12/30/2003
