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![HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. Thy […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770”")
“On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsHAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music of thy tongue, Thy wonted auditories cease to throng. Thy […] -
“On the Death of J. C. an Infant”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsNO more the flow’ry scenes of pleasure rife, Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes, No more with joy we view that lovely face Smiling, disportive, flush’d with ev’ry grace. […] -
“On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsTHROUGH thickest glooms look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made: Or from Olympus’ height look down, and see A Town involv’d in grief bereft of […] -
“On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsFROM dark abodes to fair etherial light Th’ enraptur’d innocent has wing’d her flight; On the kind bosom of eternal love She finds unknown beatitude above. This known, ye parents, […] -
“On the Death of a young Gentleman”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsWHO taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, To vanquish satan in the fields of light? Who strung thy feeble arms with might unknown, How great thy conquest, and […] -
“A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months”
Posted on June 6, 2013 | No CommentsThrough airy roads he wings his instant flight To purer regions of celestial light; Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll, Beneath him sees the universal whole, Planets on planets run […]
