Thursday, May 10, 2001

The Little Black Boy Comments

Rating: ★3.0

My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
White as an angel is the English child,
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William Blake
black english
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Konab Ghumman 07 May 2019

Blake is a very powerful poet as is seen in this poem.

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Mobein 21 January 2018

This is better than many verses of Bible and Quraan...

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Solomon Senxer 13 September 2019

Huh! ! But, yeah! The poem is great!

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Sassgtrsbergb 05 December 2017

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Pradnya kasbe 10 November 2017

Its a very intresting. In stanza 1 when boy describes him self it is wonderful. And inspiring

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Vevonulu Cho-o 25 September 2016

I really like this poem. Its really comforting.

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Duncan Stephen 21 November 2015

William Blake is a very powerful poet as is seen in this poem.

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Edgar Stevens 11 June 2015

love conquers loneliness

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Colleen Watt 08 April 2006

These old poems are so glorious, do our members only comment on modernstuff often very hard to understand

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