Read full poem →Couched upon her brother's grave
The Saxon got me on the slave.
Dictionary Entry
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
Origin
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Common Phrases
trade slave. slavestates slavelabor slavelaw slaveslave fugitiveslave africanslave former
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Poetry examples for “slave”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart,
I a slave in thy dominions;
Nature must give way to art.
Read full poem →So when your slave, at some dear idle time,
(Not plagued with headaches, or the want of rhyme)
Read full poem →If in the pomp of life consist the joy;
Then hire a slave, or (if you will) a lord
To do the honours, and to give the word;
Read full poem →'Who's here?' cries Umbra: 'Only Johnson.'[86]--'Oh!
Your slave,' and exit; but returns with Rowe:
'Dear Rowe, let's sit and talk of tragedies;'
Read full poem →Affronting all, yet fond of a good name;
A fool to pleasure, yet a slave to fame:
Now coy, and studious in no point to fall,
Read full poem →Drink deep, until the habits of the slave,
The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite
Read full poem →Those that in barbarian burials kill’d the slave, and
slew the wife,
Read full poem →name.
For thine came weeping, a slave among slaves, and rejected; but she
Came flushed from the full-flushed wave, and imperial, her foot on the
Read full poem →Bent down unto us that besought her, and earth grew sweet with her name.
For thine came weeping, a slave among slaves, and rejected; but she
Came flushed from the full-flushed wave, and imperial, her foot on the sea.