Poems on various subjects, religious and moral | ||
CONTENTS.
Page | |
TO Mæcenas | 9 |
On Virtue | 13 |
To the University of Cambridge, in New-England | 15 |
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty | 17 |
On being brought from Africa | 18 |
On the Rev. Dr. Sewell | 19 |
On the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield | 22 |
On the Death of a young Lady of five Years of Age |
25 |
On the Death of a young Gentleman | 27 |
To a Lady on the Death of her Husband | 29 |
Goliath of Gath | 31 |
Thoughts on the Works of Providence | 43 |
To a Lady on the Death of three Relations | 51 |
To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady | 53 |
An Hymn to the Morning | 56 |
An Hymn to the Evening | 58 |
On Isaiah lxiii. 1—8 | 60 |
On Recollection | 62 |
On Imagination | 65 |
A Funeral Poem on the Death of an Infant aged twelve Months |
69 |
To Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment | 72 |
To the Rt. Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth | 73 |
Ode to Neptune | 76 |
To a Lady on her coming to North America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health |
78 |
To a Lady on her remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane in North Carolina |
80 |
To a Lady and her Children on the Death of her Son, and their Brother |
82 |
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 |
84 |
On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall | 86 |
To a Gentleman on his Voyage to Great-Britain, for the Recovery of his Health |
88 |
To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his Sermons on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is recommended and assisted |
90 |
On the Death of J. C. an Infant | 92 |
An Hymn to Humanity | 95 |
To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter |
98 |
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 |
101 |
To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works |
114 |
To his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of his Lady |
116 |
A Farewel to America | 119 |
A Rebus by I. B. | 123 |
An Answer to ditto, by Phillis Wheatley | 124 |
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral | ||