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![In heavens eternal court it was decreed How the first martyr for the cause should bleed To clear the country of the hated brood He whet his courage for the […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quill-and-pen-115x115.jpg "“On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson”")
“On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson”
Posted on June 14, 2013 | No CommentsIn heavens eternal court it was decreed How the first martyr for the cause should bleed To clear the country of the hated brood He whet his courage for the […] -
![Hail, happy Saint, on thy immortal throne! To thee complaints of grievance are unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/quills-115x115.jpg "“An Elegiac Poem On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned Mr. George Whitefield”.")
“An Elegiac Poem On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned Mr. George Whitefield”.
Posted on June 12, 2013 | No CommentsHail, happy Saint, on thy immortal throne! To thee complaints of grievance are unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. […] -
![WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress–shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow, And racks your bosom with […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter”")
“To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsWHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress–shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow, And racks your bosom with […] -
“To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsALL–Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow’r, Hope’s tow’ring plumage falls to rise no more! Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly, Forget their splendors, and submit to die! Who ere […] -
“To a Lady on the Death of three Relations”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsWE trace the pow’r of Death from tomb to tomb, And his are all the ages yet to come. ‘Tis his to call the planets from on high, To blacken […] -
“To a Lady on the Death of her Husband”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsGRIM monarch! see, depriv’d of vital breath, A young physician in the dust of death: Dost thou go on incessant to destroy, Our griefs to double, and lay waste our […] -
“To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and their Brother”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsO’ERWHELMING sorrow now demands my song: From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung. What flowing tears? What hearts with grief opprest? What sighs on sighs heave the fond parent’s breast? The […] -
“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”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsON Death’s domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu’ror has his spoils […] -
“To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsWHERE contemplation finds her sacred spring, Where heav’nly music makes the arches ring, Where virtue reigns unsully’d and divine, Where wisdom thron’d, and all the graces shine, There sits thy […] -
“On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsERE yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, See Sewell number’d with the happy dead. Hail, holy man, arriv’d th’ immortal shore, Though we shall hear thy warning voice no […]
