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![WHO taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, To vanquish satan in the fields of light? Who strung thy feeble arms with might unknown, How great thy conquest, and […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“On the Death of a young Gentleman”")
“On the Death of a young Gentleman”
Posted on | No CommentsWHO taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, To vanquish satan in the fields of light? Who strung thy feeble arms with might unknown, How great thy conquest, and […] -
“On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age”
Posted on | No CommentsFROM dark abodes to fair etherial light Th’ enraptur’d innocent has wing’d her flight; On the kind bosom of eternal love She finds unknown beatitude above. This known, ye parents, […] -
“On the Death of J. C. an Infant”
Posted on | No CommentsNO more the flow’ry scenes of pleasure rife, Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes, No more with joy we view that lovely face Smiling, disportive, flush’d with ev’ry grace. […] -
“On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770”
Posted on | No CommentsHAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. Thy […] -
“On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769”
Posted on | No CommentsERE yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, See Sewell number’d with the happy dead. Hail, holy man, arriv’d th’ immortal shore, Though we shall hear thy warning voice no […] -
“On Virtue”
Posted on | No CommentsO Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach. I cease to wonder, and no […] -
“Thoughts on the Works of Providence “
Posted on | No CommentsARISE, my soul, on wings enraptur’d, rise To praise the monarch of the earth and skies, Whose goodness and benificence appear As round its centre moves the rolling year, Or […] -
“To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady”
Posted on | No CommentsWHERE contemplation finds her sacred spring, Where heav’nly music makes the arches ring, Where virtue reigns unsully’d and divine, Where wisdom thron’d, and all the graces shine, There sits thy […] -
“To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, aged one Year”
Posted on | No CommentsON Death’s domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu’ror has his spoils […] -
“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 […]
