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Title: Religious and Moral Poems
Author: Phillis Wheatley
Posting Date: August 3, 2008 [EBook #409]
Release Date: January, 1996
Language: English
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RELIGIOUS AND MORAL POEMS ***
Produced by Judith Boss
POEMS
ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS,
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL.
BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY,
NEGRO SERVANT TO MR. JOHN WHEATLEY,
OF BOSTON, IN NEW-ENGLAND.
CONTENTS.
To Maecenas
On Virtue
To the University of Cambridge, in New England
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty
On being brought from Africa
On the Rev. Dr. Sewell
On the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
On the Death of a young Lady of five Years of Age
On the Death of a young Gentleman
To a Lady on the Death of her Husband
Goliath of Gath
Thoughts on the Works of Providence
To a Lady on the Death of three Relations
To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady
An Hymn to the Morning
An Hymn to the Evening
On Isaiah lxiii. 1-8
On Recollection
On Imagination
A Funeral Poem on the Death of an Infant aged twelve Months
To Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment
To the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth
Ode to Neptune
To a Lady on her coming to North America with
her Son, for the Recovery of her Health
To a Lady on her remarkable Preservation in a
Hurricane in North Carolina
To a Lady and her Children on the Death of the Lady's Brother
and Sister, and a Child of the Name
of Avis, aged one Year
On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall,
To a Gentleman on his Voyage to Great-Britain,
for the Recovery of his Health
To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his Sermons
on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is
recommended and assisted
On the Death of J. C. an Infant
An Hymn to Humanity
To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter
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
To S. M. a young Afric
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