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![ERE 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 […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769”")
“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 […] -
“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 […] -
“To a Lady on Her Coming to North America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health”
Posted on | No CommentsINDULGENT muse! my grov’ling mind inspire, And fill my bosom with celestial fire. See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves, Like the fair mother of the blooming loves, When from […] -
“To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane in North Carolina”
Posted on | No CommentsTHOUGH thou did’st hear the tempest from afar, And felt’st the horrors of the wat’ry war, To me unknown, yet on this peaceful shore Methinks I hear the storm tumultuous […] -
“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 […]
