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Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)
 
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Dedication.
 
PREFACE.
 
[letter]
 
To the Public.

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POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
 
To MÆCENAS.
 
On VIRTUE.
 
To the University of CAMBRIDGE, in NEW-ENGLAND.
 
TO THE KING's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.—1768.
 
On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA.
 
On the DEATH of the Rev. Dr. SEWELL, 1769.
 
On the DEATH of the Reverend Mr. GEORGE WHITEFIELD,—1770.
 
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.
 
ISAIAH lxiii. 1—8.
 
On RECOLLECTION.
 
On IMAGINATION.
 
A Funeral POEM on the Death of C. E. an Infant of Twelve Months.
 
To Captain H—d, of the 65th Regiment.
 
To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c.
 
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 an Hurricane in North-Carolina.
 
To a LADY and her CHILDREN, on the Death of her Son and their Brother.
 
To a GENTLEMAN and LADY on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name AVIS, aced one Year.
 
On the Death of Dr. SAMUEL MARSHALL. 1771.
 
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, &c.
 
On the DEATH of J. C. an Infant.
 
An HYMN TO HUMANITY.
 
To the Honourable T. H. Esquire, 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 AFRICAN PAINTER, on seeing his WORKS.
 
To his Honour the Lieutenant Governor, on the Death of his Lady.
 
A Farewell to AMERICA. To Mrs. S. W.
 
A REBUS, BY I. B.
 
An ANSWER to the REBUS, by the Author of these Poems.

 
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POEMS
ON
VARIOUS SUBJECTS,
RELIGIOUS AND MORAL.

BY

PHILLIS WHEATLEY,


NEGRO SERVANT to mr. JOHN WHEATLEY,
of Boston, in New-England.

ALBANY:
Re-printed, from the London Edition, by
BARBER & SOUTHWICK,
for Thomas Spencer, book-seller,
market-street,
—1793—

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