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![Through 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 […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months”")
“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 […] -
“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 Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771”
Posted on | No CommentsTHROUGH thickest glooms look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made: Or from Olympus’ height look down, and see A Town involv’d in grief bereft of […] -
“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 […] -
“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 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 […]
