Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poetry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource To Those I love (Poem) Description An account of the resource <p>Oh, turn ye not displeased away, though I should sometimes seem <br />Too much to press upon your ear, an oft- repeated theme ; <br />The story of the negro's wrongs is heavy at my heart. <br />And can I choose but wish from you a sympathizing part ? <br /><br />I turn to you to share my joy, — to soothe me in my grief — <br />In wayward sadness from your. smiles, I seek a sweet relief: <br />And shall I keep this burning wish to see the slave set free, <br />Lock'd darkly in my secret heart, unshared and silently? <br /><br />I cannot know that all the chords, which give their magic tone <br />Like Memnon's harp, in music out, 'neath sunshine smiles alone. <br />Are torn by savage hands away from woman's bleeding breast. <br />And with their sweetness on my soul, my feelings keep repress'd! <br /><br />If I had been a friendless thing — if I had never known. <br />How swell the fountains of the heart beneath affection's tone, <br />I might have, careless, seen the leaf torn rudely from its stem, <br />But clinging as I do to you, can I but feel for them ? <br /><br />I could not brook to list the sad sweet music of a bird. <br />Though it were sweeter melody than ever ear hath heard, <br />If cruel hands had quench'd its light, that in the plaintive song. <br />It might the breathing memory of other days prolong. <br /><br />And can I give my lip to taste the life-bought luxuries, wrung <br />From those on whom a darker night of anguish has been flung — <br />Or silently and selfishly enjoy my better lot. <br />While those whom God hath bade me love, are wretched and forgot ? <br /><br />Oh no ! — so blame me not, sweet friends, though I should some- times seem <br />Too much to press upon your ear an oft-repeated theme ; <br />The story of the negro's wrongs hath won me from my rest, — <br />And I must strive to wake for him an interest in your breast !</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Margaret Chandler Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>The poetical works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: with a memoir of her life and character</em> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lemuel Howell Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1836