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![O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach. I cease to wonder, and no […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“On Virtue”")
“On Virtue”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsO Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach. I cease to wonder, and no […] -
“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 […] -
“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 […] -
“On Recollection”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | No CommentsMNEME begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine, Your vent’rous Afric in her great design. Mneme, immortal pow’r, I trace thy spring: Assist my strains, while I thy glories sing: The acts […] -
“On Isaiah lxiii. 1-8”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | 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 […] -
“On Imagination”
Posted on June 7, 2013 | 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 […]
