Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral  (1773) 
by Phillis Wheatley
Published 1773
Contents
  • To the PUBLICK.
  • TO MÆCENAS.
  • "On Virtue"
  • TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND.
  • To the KING's Most Excellent Majesty.
  • "On being brought from Africa to America"
  • On the Death of the Rev. DR. SEWELL.
  • On the Death of the Rev. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.
  • 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. I-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 WILLLAM, 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, aged one Year.
  • On the Death of Dr. SAMUEL MARSHALL.
  • 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, in which that Duty is recommended and assisted.
  • On the Death of J. C. an Infant.
  • An HYMN to HUMANITY.
  • To the Honourable T. H. Esq; on the Deathof 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 Farewel to AMERICA