Author: Harriet E. Wilson

Cites

• J.G. Holland (1)
  • IN: Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) Autobiographical Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I know That care has iron crowns for many brows; That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears Draw guiltless blood; that sorrow sits and drinks At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry; That gentle spirits on the rack of pain Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns; That hell's temptations, clad in heavenly guise And armed with might, lie evermore in wait Along life's path, giving assault to all."
    FROM: Bitter-sweet, (1858), Poem, US