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![THE poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse To show th’ obedience of the Infant muse. She knows the Quail of most inviting taste Fed Israel’s army in the dreary waste; […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these Poems”")
“An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these Poems”
Posted on | No CommentsTHE poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse To show th’ obedience of the Infant muse. She knows the Quail of most inviting taste Fed Israel’s army in the dreary waste; […] -
“An Hymn to Humanity. To S. P. G. Esq.”
Posted on | No CommentsLO! for this dark terrestrial ball Forsakes his azure–paved hall A prince of heav’nly birth! Divine Humanity behold, What wonders rise, what charms unfold At his descent to earth! II. […] -
“An Hymn to the Evening”
Posted on | No CommentsSOON as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing, Exhales the incense of the blooming spring. Soft purl […] -
“An Hymn to the Morning”
Posted on | No CommentsATTEND my lays, ye ever honour’d nine, Assist my labours, and my strains refine; In smoothest numbers pour the notes along, For bright Aurora now demands my song. Aurora hail, […] -
“Goliath of Gath. 1 Samuel, Chap. xvii”
Posted on | No CommentsYE martial pow’rs, and all ye tuneful nine, Inspire my song, and aid my high design. The dreadful scenes and toils of war I write, The ardent warriors, and the […] -
“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”
Posted on | No CommentsApollo’s wrath to man the dreadful spring Of 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, […] -
“Ode to Neptune”
Posted on | No CommentsOn Mrs. W–––––’s Voyage to England. WHILE raging tempests shake the shore, While AElus’ thunders round us roar, And sweep impetuous o’er the plain Be still, O tyrant of the […] -
“On Being Brought from Africa to America”
Posted on | No Comments‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. […] -
“On Imagination”
Posted on | No CommentsTHY various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is […] -
“On Isaiah lxiii. 1-8”
Posted on | No CommentsSAY, heav’nly muse, what king or mighty God, That moves sublime from Idumea’s road? In Bosrah’s dies, with martial glories join’d, His purple vesture waves upon the wind. Why thus […]
