On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, See Sewell number'd with the happy dead. Hail, holy man, arriv'd th' ...
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, See Sewell number'd with the happy dead. Hail, holy man, arriv'd th' ...
O! for this dark terrestrial ball Forsakes his azure-paved hall A prince of heav'nly birth! Divine Humanity behold, What wonders ...
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight; On the kind bosom of eternal ...
WE trace the pow'r of Death from tomb to tomb, And his are all the ages yet to come. 'Tis ...
O show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent, And thought in living characters to paint, When first thy pencil did those ...
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence ...
Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar, And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war, To me unknown, yet ...
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