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![GRIM 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 […]](http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Poems-on-various-subjects-religious-and-moral1-115x115.jpg "“To a Lady on the Death of her Husband”")
“To a Lady on the Death of her Husband”
Posted on | 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 on the Death of three Relations”
Posted on | 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 Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment”
Posted on | No CommentsSAY, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight The warrior’s bosom in the fields of fight? Lo! here the christian and the hero join With mutual grace to form the man […] -
“To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773”
Posted on | 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 Maecenas”
Posted on | No CommentsMAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade, Read o’er what poets sung, and shepherds play’d. What felt those poets but you feel the same? Does not your soul possess the sacred […] -
“To S. M. a Young African Painter, on seeing His Works”
Posted on | No CommentsTO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep intent, And thought in living characters to paint, When first thy pencil did those beauties give, And breathing figures learnt from thee to live, […] -
“To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter”
Posted on | 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 the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America”
Posted on | No CommentsHAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn, Fair Freedom rose New–England to adorn: The northern clime beneath her genial ray, Dartmouth, congratulates thy blissful sway: Elate with hope her […] -
“To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”
Posted on | No CommentsWritten in 1768 praising King George III for repealing the Stamp Act. Your subjects hope, dread Sire– The crown upon your brows may flourish long, And that your arm may […] -
“To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is Recommended and Assisted”
Posted on | No CommentsTO cultivate in ev’ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin’d, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, Thus while the heav’nly precepts you impart, O may each […]
