An Hymn to the Morning (Poem by Phillis Wheatley) An Hymn to the Morning By Phillis Wheatley Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine, Assist my labours, and my strains refine; In smoothest numbers pou…
A Farewell to America (Poem by Phillis Wheatley) A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W. By Phillis Wheatley (1) Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads, Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning…
An Hymn to the Evening (Poem by Phillis Wheatley) An Hymn to the Evening By Phillis Wheatley Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur!…
To a Lady and Her Children (Poem by Phillis Wheatley) To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and their Brother By Phillis Wheatley O’erwhelming sorrow now demands my song: From death the ov…