Poems by Phillis Wheatley
To The King's Most Excellent Majesty
... A monarch's smile can set his subjects free!* The Repeal of the Stamp Act ...
To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary Of The State For North-America,
... To sooth the griefs, which thou did'st once deplore ...
Goliath Of Gath
... "dead?" Scarce had he spoke, when the Philistines fled: ...
On The Death Of J. C. An Infant
... spread, No more shall smile, no more shall raise its head, ...
On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age
... Restrain your tears, and cease your plaintive moans ...
To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter
... laid In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow, ...
Niobe in Distress
... When thus Maeonia's prophetess began:"Go, Thebans! great Latona's will obey, ...
Thoughts On The Works Of Providence
... "Say, mighty pow'r, how long shall strife prevail, ...
On Recollection
... Resounding through the groves, and hills, and plains ...
A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W.
... XIII. Thrice happy they, whose heav'nly shield ...
On The Death Of Dr. Samuel Marshall
... Clings round his mother's neck, and weeps his sorrows ...
To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain
... Turn'd back the shafts, and mock'd the gates of death, ...
To Captain H-----d, of the 65th Regiment
... Still to the field, and still to virtue true: ...
A Rebus, By I. B.
... Where beaux and beauteous nymphs resort, ...
To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor
... Wond'ring he gaz'd at the refulgent car,Then snatch'd the mantle floating on the air ...
