This paper will Compare and Contrast these Three Poems- William Blake's "The Little Black Boy," William Cowper's "The Negro's Complaint," and Amelia Anderson Opie's "The Black Man's Lament." The focus of the paper will be to analyze Blake's poem and create a compare and contrast with the two other poems studied here. By analyzing this we can see the differences in the meditations of the authors about black people in this context. 3 pgs. Bibliography lists 3 sources.