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![WHILE others chant of gay Elysian scenes, Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow’ry plains, My song more happy speaks a greater name, Feels higher motives and a nobler flame. For […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain, for the Recovery of His Health”")
“To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain, for the Recovery of His Health”
Posted on | No CommentsWHILE others chant of gay Elysian scenes, Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow’ry plains, My song more happy speaks a greater name, Feels higher motives and a nobler flame. For […] -
“To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and their Brother”
Posted on | No CommentsO’ERWHELMING sorrow now demands my song: From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung. What flowing tears? What hearts with grief opprest? What sighs on sighs heave the fond parent’s breast? The […] -
“To a Lady on Her Coming to North America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health”
Posted on | No CommentsINDULGENT muse! my grov’ling mind inspire, And fill my bosom with celestial fire. See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves, Like the fair mother of the blooming loves, When from […] -
“To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane in North Carolina”
Posted on | No CommentsTHOUGH thou did’st hear the tempest from afar, And felt’st the horrors of the wat’ry war, To me unknown, yet on this peaceful shore Methinks I hear the storm tumultuous […] -
“To a Lady on the Death of her Husband”
Posted on | No CommentsGRIM monarch! see, depriv’d of vital breath, A young physician in the dust of death: Dost thou go on incessant to destroy, Our griefs to double, and lay waste our […] -
“To a Lady on the Death of three Relations”
Posted on | No CommentsWE trace the pow’r of Death from tomb to tomb, And his are all the ages yet to come. ‘Tis his to call the planets from on high, To blacken […] -
“To Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment”
Posted on | No CommentsSAY, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight The warrior’s bosom in the fields of fight? Lo! here the christian and the hero join With mutual grace to form the man […] -
“To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773”
Posted on | No CommentsALL–Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow’r, Hope’s tow’ring plumage falls to rise no more! Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly, Forget their splendors, and submit to die! Who ere […] -
“To Maecenas”
Posted on | No CommentsMAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade, Read o’er what poets sung, and shepherds play’d. What felt those poets but you feel the same? Does not your soul possess the sacred […] -
“To S. M. a Young African Painter, on seeing His Works”
Posted on | No CommentsTO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep intent, And thought in living characters to paint, When first thy pencil did those beauties give, And breathing figures learnt from thee to live, […]
