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Phillis Wheatley
> Poems on Various Subjects
But, O my soul, sink not into despair, / Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand / Would now embrace thee, hovers oer thine head.
On Virtue
Phillis
Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects
Religious and Moral
Phillis Wheatley
These 39 poems form the first book of verse by an African-American author.
C
ONTENTS
Bibliographic Record
Preface
LONDON: A. BELL, 1773
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010
To Mæcenas
On Virtue
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty
. 1768
On being brought from
Africa
to
America
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell
. 1769
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
. 1770
On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age
On the Death of a young Gentleman
To a Lady on the Death of her Husband
Goliath of Gath
Thoughts on the Works of Providence
To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady
An Hymn to the Morning
An Hymn to the Evening
Isaiah lxiii
. 18
On Recollection
On Imagination
A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. an Infant of Twelve Months
To Captain Hd, of the 65th Regiment
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majestys Principal Secretary of State for North-America
, &c.
Ode to Neptune
To a Lady on her coming to North-America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health
To a Lady on her remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane in
North-Carolina
To a Lady and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother
To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Ladys Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of
Avis,
aged one Year
On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall
. 1771
To a Gentleman on his Voyage to
Great-Britain
for the Recovery of his Health
To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his Sermons on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is recommended and assisted
On the Death of J. C. an Infant
An Hymn to Humanity
To the Honourable T. H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter
Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo, from
Ovids
Metamorphoses, Book VI. and from a view of the Painting of Mr.
Richard Wilson
To S. M. a young
African
Painter, on seeing his Works
To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of his Lady
.
March
24, 1773
A Farewel to America
A Rebus
, by
I. B.
An Answer to the
Rebus,
by the Author of these Poems
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