Phillis Wheatley's Poetry, by title

• A Farewell To America to Mrs. S. W.

  I.
  ADIEU, New-England's smiling meads,

  66 lines, 1 comment
• A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E. An Infant Of Twelve Months

  THROUGH airy roads he wings his instant flight

  47 lines
• A Rebus

  I.
  A bird delicious to the taste,

  21 lines
• America

  New England first a wilderness was found
  Till for a continent 'twas destin'd round

  42 lines
• An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems

  The poet asks, and Phillis can't refuse
  To show th' obedience of the Infant muse.

  20 lines
• An Hymn To Humanity To S. P. G. Esp;

  I.
  LO! for this dark terrestrial ball

  43 lines
• An Hymn To The Evening

  SOON as the sun forsook the eastern main
  The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain;

  18 lines
• An Hymn To The Morning

  ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
  Assist my labours, and my strains refine;

  20 lines
• Atheism --

  Muse! Muse! where shall I begin the spacious feild
  To tell what curses unbeleif doth yeild?

  56 lines, 1 comment
• Deism

  Must Ethiopians be employ'd for you?
  Much I rejoice if any good I do.

  42 lines
• Goliath Of Gath

  SAMUEL, Chap. xvii.
  YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine,

  226 lines
• Isaiah LXIII

  Say, heav'nly muse, what king or mighty God,
  That moves sublime from Idumea's road?

  30 lines
• Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. And Fro

  APOLLO's wrath to man the dreadful spring
  Of ills innum'rous, tuneful goddess, sing!

  226 lines
• Ode To Neptune

  On Mrs. W-----'s Voyage to England.
  I.

  22 lines
• On Being Brought from Africa to America

  'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
  Taught my benighted soul to understand

  8 lines, 7 comments
• On Friendship

  Let amicitia in her ample reign
  Extend her notes to a Celestial strain

  9 lines
• On Imagination

  THY various works, imperial queen, we see,
  How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp

  55 lines, 1 comment
• On Messrs Hussey and Coffin

  Did Fear and Danger so perplex your Mind,
  As made you fearful of the Whistling Wind?

  25 lines
• On Recollection

  MNEME begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine,
  Your vent'rous Afric in her great design.

  51 lines
• On the Death of a Young Gentleman

  Who taught thee conflict with the pow'rs of night,
  To vanquish satan in the fields of light?

  24 lines
• On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age

  FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light
  Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight;

  37 lines
• On The Death Of Dr. Samuel Marshall

  Thro' thickest glooms look back, immortal shade,
  On that confusion which thy death has made:

  28 lines
• On the Death of J.C. an Infant

  No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rife,
  Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes,

  42 lines
• On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd By Richardson

  In heavens eternal court it was decreed
  How the first martyr for the cause should bleed

  28 lines
• On The Death of The Rev'd Dr. Sewall

  E'er yet the morning heav'd its Orient head
  Behold him praising with the happy dead.

  60 lines
• On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770

  Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne,
  To thee complaints of grievance are unknown;

  49 lines
• On Virtue

  O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive
  To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare

  21 lines
• Thoughts on the Works of Providence

  Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise
  To praise the monarch of the earth and skies,

  131 lines
• To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady

  Where contemplation finds her sacred spring,
  Where heav'nly music makes the arches ring,

  43 lines
• To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister

  On Death's domain intent I fix my eyes,
  Where human nature in vast ruin lies,

  34 lines, 1 comment

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