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![In 1773 Phillis Wheatley published her first and what was to be her only book of poetry. After failing to find a publisher in the colonies, Selina Hastings, the countess […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral-115x115.jpg "“Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”")
“Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”
Posted on | No CommentsIn 1773 Phillis Wheatley published her first and what was to be her only book of poetry. After failing to find a publisher in the colonies, Selina Hastings, the countess […] -
![I. ADIEU, New–England’s smiling meads, Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring main. II. In vain for me the flow’rets rise, […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W.”")
“A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W.”
Posted on | No CommentsI. ADIEU, New–England’s smiling meads, Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring main. II. In vain for me the flow’rets rise, […] -
“A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months”
Posted on | No CommentsThrough airy roads he wings his instant flight To purer regions of celestial light; Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll, Beneath him sees the universal whole, Planets on planets run […] -
“A Rebus by I. B”
Posted on | No CommentsI. A BIRD delicious to the taste, On which an army once did feast, Sent by an hand unseen; A creature of the horned race, Which Britain’s royal standards grace; […] -
“An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these Poems”
Posted on | No CommentsTHE poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse To show th’ obedience of the Infant muse. She knows the Quail of most inviting taste Fed Israel’s army in the dreary waste; […] -
“An Hymn to Humanity. To S. P. G. Esq.”
Posted on | No CommentsLO! for this dark terrestrial ball Forsakes his azure–paved hall A prince of heav’nly birth! Divine Humanity behold, What wonders rise, what charms unfold At his descent to earth! II. […] -
“An Hymn to the Evening”
Posted on | No CommentsSOON as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing, Exhales the incense of the blooming spring. Soft purl […] -
“An Hymn to the Morning”
Posted on | No CommentsATTEND my lays, ye ever honour’d nine, Assist my labours, and my strains refine; In smoothest numbers pour the notes along, For bright Aurora now demands my song. Aurora hail, […] -
“Goliath of Gath. 1 Samuel, Chap. xvii”
Posted on | No CommentsYE martial pow’rs, and all ye tuneful nine, Inspire my song, and aid my high design. The dreadful scenes and toils of war I write, The ardent warriors, and the […] -
“Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson”
Posted on | No CommentsApollo’s wrath to man the dreadful spring Of ills innum’rous, tuneful goddess, sing! Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pencil give, And taught’st the painter in his works to live, […]
