First linesPhillis Wheatley

  1. A bird delicious to the taste, A Rebus, by I. B.
  2. Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads, A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W.
  3. All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow’r, To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
  4. Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful spring 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
  5. Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur’d, rise Thoughts on the Works of Providence
  6. Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine, An Hymn to the Morning
  7. Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769
  8. From dark abodes to fair etherial light On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
  9. Grim monarch! see, depriv’d of vital breath, To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
  10. Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn, To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, etc.
  11. Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
  12. Indulgent muse! my grov’ling mind inspire, To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
  13. Lo! for this dark terrestrial ball An Hymn to Humanity
  14. Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade, To Maecenas
  15. Mneme begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine, On Recollection
  16. No more the flow’ry scenes of pleasure rife, On the Death of J. C. An Infant
  17. O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive On Virtue
  18. O’erwhelming sorrow now demands my song: To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
  19. On Death’s domain intent I fix my eyes, 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
  20. Say, heav’nly muse, what king or mighty God, Isaiah 63:1⁠–⁠8
  21. Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight To Captain H⁠⸺⁠d, of the 65th Regiment
  22. Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main An Hymn to the Evening
  23. The poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems
  24. Though thou did’st hear the tempest from afar, To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
  25. Through airy roads he wings his instant flight A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. An Infant of Twelve Months
  26. Through thickest glooms look back, immortal shade, On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771
  27. Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, On Imagination
  28. To cultivate in ev’ry noble mind To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
  29. To show the lab’ring bosom’s deep intent, To S. M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
  30. ’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, On Being Brought from Africa to America
  31. We trace the pow’r of Death from tomb to tomb, To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
  32. Where contemplation finds her sacred spring, To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
  33. While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
  34. While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade To the Honourable T. H. Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
  35. While others chant of gay Elysian scenes, To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
  36. While raging tempests shake the shore, Ode to Neptune
  37. Who taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, On the Death of a Young Gentleman
  38. Ye martial pow’rs, and all ye tuneful nine, Goliath of Gath
  39. Your subjects hope, dread Sire⁠— To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768

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