The Slave Trade  24573

Locations in Harold's Library

• The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th edition) (book) (excerpt only)
  • page 709
  • Excerptfrom "Strange power of song! the strain that warms the heart / Seems the same inspiration to impart; / Touched by the extrinsic energy alone, / We think the flame which melts us is our own;" to "Torn from their grasp, and bleeding as they part."  (public domain)

This work has the following connections with other works:

• Slavery: A Poem
• Oroonoko: A Tragedy • Southerne's play is the "song" referred to at the start of More's poem

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