On Recollection
MNEME begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine, Your vent’rous Afric in her great design. Mneme, immortal pow’r, I trace thy spring: […]
Author: Phillis Wheatley
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, See Sewell number’d with the happy dead. Hail, holy man, arriv’d th’ […]
To Mæcenas
Mæcenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade, Read o’er what poets sung, and shepherds play’d. What felt those poets but you […]
On Imagination
Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! Thy wond’rous acts […]
One Being Brought From Africa To America
‘TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s […]
On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light Th’ enraptur’d innocent has wing’d her flight; On the kind bosom of eternal […]
On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music […]
On the Death of a Young Gentleman
Who taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, To vanquish satan in the fields of light? Who strung thy […]
A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W
I. ADIEU, New-England’s smiling meads, Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring […]
To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter Laid In dust, whose absence […]
To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain
While others chant of gay Elysian scenes, Of balmy zephyrs, and of flow’ry plains, My song more happy speaks a […]
An Hymn To The Evening
Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s […]
Thoughts On The Works Of Providence
A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur’d, rise To praise the monarch of the earth and skies, […]
To Captain H – d, of the 65th Regiment
Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight The warrior’s bosom in the fields of fight? Lo! here the christian and […]
Niobe in Distress
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful spring Of ills innum’rous, tuneful goddess, sing! Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pencil […]
On The Death Of Dr. Samuel Marshall
THROUGH thickest glooms look back, immortal Shade, On that confusion which thy death has made: Or from Olympus’ height look […]
To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband
GRIM monarch! see, depriv’d of vital breath, A young physician in the dust of death: Dost thou go on incessant […]
To A Lady On The Death Of The Three Relations
WE trace the pow’r of Death from tomb to tomb, And his are all the ages yet to come. ‘Tis […]
On The Death Of J. C. An Infant
NO more the flow’ry scenes of pleasure rife, Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes, No more with joy we […]
To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory
To cultivate in ev’ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin’d, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, […]