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![GRIM 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 […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To a Lady on the Death of her Husband”")
“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 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 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 […] -
![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. […] -
![In heavens eternal court it was decreed How the first martyr for the cause should bleed To clear the country of the hated brood He whet his courage for the […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-pen-115x115.jpg "“On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson”")
“On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson”
Posted on | No CommentsIn heavens eternal court it was decreed How the first martyr for the cause should bleed To clear the country of the hated brood He whet his courage for the […]
