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![It was thy noble soul and high desert That caus’d these breathings of my grateful heart You sav’d a soul from Pluto’s dreary shore You sav’d his body and he […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill1-115x115.jpg "“To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter”")
“To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter”
Posted on | No CommentsIt was thy noble soul and high desert That caus’d these breathings of my grateful heart You sav’d a soul from Pluto’s dreary shore You sav’d his body and he […] -
![GRIM Monarch! see depriv’d of vital breath, A young Physician in the dust of death! Dost thou go on incessant to destroy: The grief to double, and impair the joy? […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quills-115x115.jpg "“To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband”")
“To Mrs. Leonard 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: The grief to double, and impair the joy? […] -
![Let amicitia in her ample reign Extend her notes to a Celestial strain Benevolent far more divinely Bright Amor like me doth triumph at the sight When my thoughts in […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-ink1-115x115.jpg "“On Friendship”")
“On Friendship”
Posted on | No CommentsLet amicitia in her ample reign Extend her notes to a Celestial strain Benevolent far more divinely Bright Amor like me doth triumph at the sight When my thoughts in […]
