Phillis Wheatley Poems (67 Poems)
Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid’s Metamorphose (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful springOf ills innum’rous, tuneful goddess, sing!Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pencil give,And taught’st the painter in his works to live,Inspire with glowing energy of thought,What Wilson painted, and what Ovid wrote.Muse! lend thy … Continue reading
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
AN ELEGIAC POEM, On the DEATH of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of JESUS CHRIST, the late Reverend, and pious GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c &c. Who made his Exit from this … Continue reading
A Farewell To America to Mrs. S. W. (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
. I. Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads, Adieu, the flow’ry plain:I leave thine op’ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring main. II. In vain for me the flow’rets rise, And boast their gaudy pride,While here beneath the northern skies I mourn for health deny’d. … Continue reading
On The Death of The Rev’d Dr. Sewall (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
E’er yet the morning heav’d its Orient headBehold him praising with the happy dead.Hail! happy Saint, on the immortal Shore.We hear thy warnings and advice no more:Then let each one behold with wishful eyesThe saint ascending to his native Skies,From … Continue reading
To Maecenas (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade,Read o’er what poets sung, and shepherds play’d.What felt those poets but you feel the same?Does not your soul possess the sacred flame?Their noble strains your equal genius sharesIn softer language, and diviner airs.While Homer … Continue reading
Atheism — (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Muse! Muse! where shall I begin the spacious feildTo tell what curses unbeleif doth yeild?Thou who dost daily feel his hand, and rodDarest thou deny the Essence of a God! —If there’s no heav’n, ah! whither wilt thou goMake thy … Continue reading
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 splendors, and submit to die!Who ere escap’d thee, but the saint of oldBeyond the flood in sacred annals told,And the … Continue reading
A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Through airy roads he wings his instant flightTo purer regions of celestial light;Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll,Beneath him sees the universal whole,Planets on planets run their destin’d round,And circling wonders fill the vast profound.Th’ ethereal now, and now th’ … Continue reading
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:The northern clime beneath her genial ray,Dartmouth, congratulates thy blissful sway:Elate with hope her race no longer mourns,Each soul expands, each grateful bosom burns,While in thine hand with … Continue reading
His Excellency General Washington (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
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 her offspring’s fate bemoan,And nations gaze at scenes before unknown!See the bright beams of … Continue reading
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