To His Honour the Lieutenant-G (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,Forget their ...
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,Forget their ...
Dark and yet darker my day's clouded o'er;Are its bright joys all fled, and its sunshine no more?I look to ...
My times are in thy hand, my God!And I rejoice that they are so;My times are in thy hand, my ...
Here stand, beloved, where the outer light Falls glorified by entrance to the shrine Of the Eternal; where the tracery fine Of marble ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
You say there's a Being all-loving, Whose nature is justice and pity; Could you say where you ...
Mean while thro' savage woods, and deserts vast, The captive with his Midian masters past. At last rich Egypt's pleasant ...
AND is that beauteous Star eclips'd in night,Which late in Brunswick's constellation shone?Whose rays with mild effulgence beam'd so bright,And ...
WHEN Heav'n the soul requires, not florid youth,Nor Nature's gilts, by Art improv'd, can save;Yon awful knell proclaims the solemn ...
Bearing two crystal goblets in her hands To a philosopher an Angel came:One wine shone clear as water o'er ...
Cistercians might crack their sidesWith laughter, and exemption get,At sight of heroes clasping brides,And hearing--O the horn! the horn!The horn ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r, Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more! Of scenes terrestrial how the glories ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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