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![TO 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, […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To S. M. a Young African Painter, on seeing His Works”")
“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, […] -
“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: […] -
![Written in 1767, 14 years of age. The poems urge atheists to embrace Christianity. Muse! where shall I begin the spacious feild To tell what curses unbeleif doth yeild? […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-ink1-115x115.jpg "“An Address to the Atheist”")
“An Address to the Atheist”
Posted on | No CommentsWritten in 1767, 14 years of age. The poems urge atheists to embrace Christianity. Muse! where shall I begin the spacious feild To tell what curses unbeleif doth yeild? […] -
![Written in 1767, 14 years of age. The poems urge deists to embrace Christianity. Must Ethiopians be employ’d for you? Much I rejoice if any good I do. I […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-pen-115x115.jpg "“An Address to the Deist”")
“An Address to the Deist”
Posted on | No CommentsWritten in 1767, 14 years of age. The poems urge deists to embrace Christianity. Must Ethiopians be employ’d for you? Much I rejoice if any good I do. I […] -
![Written on July 1769. Similar to written in 1767, Wheatley urges atheist to believe in god who created the universe. Where now shall I begin this Spacious field To […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-ink-115x115.jpg "“Atheism”")
“Atheism”
Posted on | No CommentsWritten on July 1769. Similar to written in 1767, Wheatley urges atheist to believe in god who created the universe. Where now shall I begin this Spacious field To […] -
![Hail, happy Saint, on thy immortal throne! To thee complaints of grievance are unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quills-115x115.jpg "“An Elegiac Poem On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned Mr. George Whitefield”.")
“An Elegiac Poem On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned Mr. George Whitefield”.
Posted on | No CommentsHail, happy Saint, on thy immortal throne! To thee complaints of grievance are unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. […]
