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![WHILE 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: […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To the University of Cambridge, in New-England”")
“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. […] -
![Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom’s cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms. See mother earth […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/George-Washington-115x115.jpg "“To His Excellency, George Washington”")
“To His Excellency, George Washington”
Posted on | No CommentsCelestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom’s cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms. See mother earth […] -
![Phillis Wheatley’s first published poem in the Newport Mercury, December 21, 1767. Did Fear and Danger so perplex your Mind, As made you fearful of the Whistling Wind? […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-ink2-115x115.jpg "“On Messrs Hussey and Coffin”")
“On Messrs Hussey and Coffin”
Posted on | No CommentsPhillis Wheatley’s first published poem in the Newport Mercury, December 21, 1767. Did Fear and Danger so perplex your Mind, As made you fearful of the Whistling Wind? […] -
![Written 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 […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/King-George-III-115x115.jpg "“To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”")
“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 […] -
“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 […] -
“America”
Posted on | No CommentsNew England first a wilderness was found Till for a continent ’twas destin’d round From feild to feild the savage monsters run E’r yet Brittania had her work begun Thy […]
