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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Phillis Wheatley

Poetryabout 1 h 45 min of listening

Phillis Wheatley’s only published collection of poetry.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface
  4. Letter to the Publisher
  5. To Maecenas
  6. On Virtue
  7. To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
  8. To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768
  9. On Being Brought from Africa to America
  10. On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769
  11. On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
  12. On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
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  1. On the Death of a Young Gentleman
  2. To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
  3. Goliath of Gath
  4. Thoughts on the Works of Providence
  5. To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
  6. To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
  7. An Hymn to the Morning
  8. An Hymn to the Evening
  9. Isaiah 63:1–8
  10. On Recollection
  11. On Imagination
  12. A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. An Infant of Twelve Months
  13. To Captain H——d, of the 65th Regiment
  14. To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, etc.
  15. Ode to Neptune
  16. I
  17. II
  18. III
  19. To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
  20. To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
  21. To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
  22. 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
  23. On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771
  24. To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
  25. To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
  26. On the Death of J. C. An Infant
  27. An Hymn to Humanity
  28. I
  29. II
  30. III
  31. IV
  32. V
  33. VI
  34. To the Honourable T. H. Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
  35. 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
  36. To S. M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
  37. To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
  38. I
  39. II
  40. III
  41. IV
  42. V
  43. VI
  44. VII
  45. VIII
  46. IX
  47. X
  48. XI
  49. XII
  50. XIII
  51. I
  52. II
  53. III
  54. An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems
  55. Endnotes
  56. Colophon
  57. Uncopyright

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