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![WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress–shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow, And racks your bosom with […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter”")
“To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter”
Posted on | No CommentsWHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress–shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow, And racks your bosom with […] -
“To the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America”
Posted on | No CommentsHAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn, Fair Freedom rose New–England to adorn: The northern clime beneath her genial ray, Dartmouth, congratulates thy blissful sway: Elate with hope her […] -
“To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”
Posted on | No CommentsWritten in 1768 praising King George III for repealing the Stamp Act. Your subjects hope, dread Sire– The crown upon your brows may flourish long, And that your arm may […] -
“To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is Recommended and Assisted”
Posted on | No CommentsTO cultivate in ev’ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin’d, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, Thus while the heav’nly precepts you impart, O may each […] -
“To the University of Cambridge, in New-England”
Posted on | No CommentsWHILE an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses promise to assist my pen; ‘Twas not long since I left my native shore The land of errors, and Egyptain gloom: […] -
![Composed by Jupiter Hammon, Hartford, August 4, 1778. Miss Wheatly; pray give leave to express as follows: O, come you pious youth: adore The wisdom of thy God. In bringing […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/jupiter-hammon-115x115.jpg "“An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly [sic], Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ.”")
“An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly [sic], Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Posted on | No CommentsComposed by Jupiter Hammon, Hartford, August 4, 1778. Miss Wheatly; pray give leave to express as follows: O, come you pious youth: adore The wisdom of thy God. In bringing […] -
![The following is a copy of the Letter sent by the Author’s Mater to the Publisher and included in Phillis was brought from Africa to America in the year […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ink1-115x115.jpg "Letter form John Wheatley to Publisher")
Letter form John Wheatley to Publisher
Posted on | No CommentsThe following is a copy of the Letter sent by the Author’s Mater to the Publisher and included in Phillis was brought from Africa to America in the year […] -
Letter to Obour Tanner
Posted on | No CommentsDear Obour I am exceedingly glad to hear from you by Mrs. Tanner, and wish you had timely notice of her departure, so as to have wrote me; next to […] -
Letter from George Washington to Phillis Wheatley
Posted on | No CommentsCambridge, February 28, 1776. Mrs. Phillis: Your favour of the 26th of October did not reach my hands ’till the middle of December. Time enough, you will say, to have […]
