Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

by Phillis Wheatley

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. To the Public
  3. To M Ae C E N a S.
  4. O N V I R T U E.
  5. To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
  6. To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768
  7. On Being Brought from Africa to America
  8. On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, 1769
  9. On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
  10. On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
  11. On the Death of a Young Gentleman
  12. To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
  13. G O L I a T H O F G a T H.
  14. Thoughts on the Works of Providence
  15. To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
  16. To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
  17. An Hymn to the Morning
  18. An Hymn to the Evening
  19. Isaiah lxiii. 1-8
  20. On Recollection
  21. On Imagination
  22. A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. An Infant of Twelve Months
  23. To Captain H———D, of the 65Th Regiment
  24. To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth
  25. O D E T O N E P T U N E.
  26. To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
  27. To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
  28. To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
  29. 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
  30. On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771
  31. To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
  32. To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
  33. On the Death of J. C. An Infant
  34. An H Y M N to H U M a N I T Y. To S. P. G. Esq;
  35. To the Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death of His Daughter
  36. 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
  37. To S. M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
  38. To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
  39. A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W.
  40. A Rebus, by I. B.
  41. An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems

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