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 […]
Author: Phillis Wheatley
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, […]