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 ...
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 ...
Oh lapping waves!—oh gnawing waves!— That rest not day nor night,— I hear ye when the lightIs dim and awful in your ...
A poor little separate star Each in his orbit rolls,--Yet few of us heed what units we are Among the millions of ...
AT midnight wakening, through my startled brainThe sudden thunder crashed a chord of pain;I rose, and, awe-struck, hearkened. OverheadIn one ...
I wrote my name upon the sand, And trusted it would stand for aye;But, soon, alas! the refluent sea Had washed my ...
(Holy Trinity Church.)THE hectic autumn's dilatory fire Has turned this lime tree to a sevenfold brand, Which, self consuming, lights the sunless ...
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
I O tranquil meadows, grassy Tantramar, Wide marshes ever washed in clearest air, Whether beneath the ...
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town ofBrighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.Slow in ...
Coelo Musa beat.Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 8.—Nec meus audetRem tentare pudor, quam Vires serre recusent.Hor. Ep. 1. Lib. 2.I ...
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
'Twas the hour of four by Quarterman's clock Of a July day in the afternoon,- Four of the clock, not ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionariesBurnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess,Far ...
How strange at night to wake And watch, while others sleep, ...
O Lord of all compassionate control,O Love! let this my lady's picture glowUnder my hand to praise her name, and ...
IF Life is but a hunger to attain,- A longing for some unattested Good, Whose secret has been whispered to ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
Small is the new-born plant scarce seen Amid the soft encircling green, Where yonder budding acorn rears, Just o'er the ...
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