The Negro Woman to the Sick White Man single work   poetry   "The setting sun is beautiful,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 The Negro Woman to the Sick White Man
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Notes

  • In his preface to the poem, Knox describes a Negro woman singing to the explorer Clapperton, 'bidding him not to die, for the same ocean which she pointed to, laved the shores of his native land, and would bear him safely to his home'.

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    y separately published work icon Poetic Trifles James Knox , Hobart : S. A. Tegg , 1838 Z102297 1838 selected work poetry Hobart : S. A. Tegg , 1838 pg. 8-11
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