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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
 
[dedication]
 
PREFACE.
 
The following is a Copy of a Letter sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher.
 
To the PUBLICK.
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Other Poems and Variants of Poems
 
ON MESSRS HUSSEY AND COFFIN.
 
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, WROTE IN 1767—
 
ATHEISM—
 
AN ADDRESS TO THE ATHEIST, BY P. WHEATLEY AT THE AGE OF 14 YEARS—1767—
 
DEISM
 
AN ADDRESS TO THE DEIST—1767—
 
AMERICA
 
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ON HIS REPEALING THE AMERICAN STAMP ACT
 
ON FRIENDSHIP
 
TO THE HONble. COMMODORE HOOD ON HIS PARDONING A DESERTER
 
ON THE DEATH OF THE REV'D DR. SEWALL. 1769.—
 
ON THE DEATH OF MR SNIDER MURDER'D BY RICHARDSON
 
AN ELEGIAC POEM, On the DEATH of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of JESUS CHRIST, the late Reverend, and pious GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c &c. Who made his Exit from this transitory State, to dwell in the celestial Realms of Bliss, on LORD'S-DAY, 30th of September, 1770, when he was seiz'd with a Fit of the Asthma, at NEWBURY-PORT, near BOSTON, in NEW-ENGLAND. In which is a Condolatory Address to His truly noble Benefactress the worthy and pious Lady HUNTINGDON,—and the Orphan-Children in GEORGIA; who, with many Thousands, are left, by the Death of this great Man, to lament the Loss of a Father, Friend, and Benefactor.
 
AN ODE OF VERSES On the much-lamented Death of the REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon; Who departed this Life, at Newberry near Boston in New England, on the Thirtieth of September, 1770, in the Fifty-seventh Year of his Age.
 
To Mrs. LEONARD, on the Death of her HUSBAND.
 
ON THE DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL MARSHALL
 
On the Death of Doctor SAMUEL MARSHALL.
 
RECOLLECTION.
 
To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the DEATH of his LADY.
 
A POEM ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES ELIOT, AGED 12 MONTHS
 
TO THE RIGHT HONl. WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, HIS MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTH AMERICA &c. &c. &c.
 
To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; On the Death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard.
 
FAREWELL TO AMERICA.
 
An ELEGY, To Miss. Mary Moorhead, on the DEATH of her Father, The Rev. Mr. JOHN MOORHEAD.
 
[[TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE NAVY.] ]
 
THE ANSWER.
 
PHILIS'S Reply to the Answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy.
 
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON.
 
ON THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEE
 
ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOOSTER
 
AN ELEGY, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THAT GREAT DIVINE, THE REVEREND AND LEARNED DR. SAMUEL COOPER, Who departed this Life December 29, 1783, ÆTATIS 59.
 
LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM.
 
An ELEGY on leaving ---.
 
To Mr. and Mrs. ---, on the Death of their Infant Son,

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Phillis Wheatley

1753-1784
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill, London
1989
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