Phillis Wheatley. 1773. Poems on Various Subjects

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But, O my soul, sink not into despair, / Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand / Would now embrace thee, hovers o’er 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.

CONTENTS

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 King’s 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. 1–8
		On Recollection
		On Imagination
		A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. an Infant of Twelve Months
		To Captain H——d, of the 65th Regiment
		To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s 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 Lady’s 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 Ovid’s 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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