10 of the Best Phillis Wheatley Poems Everyone Should Read
Below, we select and introduce ten of her best. If this selection whets your appetite for more, we recommend the highly affordable volume The Poems of Phillis Wheatley with Letters and a Memoir. 1. ‘His Excellency General Washington’.
Phillis Wheatley Peters | The Poetry Foundation
Poems on Various Subjects revealed that Wheatley’s favorite poetic form was the couplet, both iambic pentameter and heroic. More than one-third of her canon is composed of elegies, poems on the deaths of noted persons, friends, or even strangers whose loved ones employed the poet.
25 Inspiring Phillis Wheatley Poems (Free Printables)
Apr 9, 2024 · The 25 Phillis Wheatley poems below are among her best and show how strong she was at her craft, and how she helped shape the opinions of colonial men and women. Get the full text of each poem as a free printable to use with your students by filling out the form on this page.
On Being Brought from Africa to America - Poetry Foundation
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption…
Poems, by Phillis Wheatley - Project Gutenberg
Feb 24, 2019 · POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL. By Phillis Wheatley (Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston, In New-England) 1771
Poems - Phillis Wheatley
Twenty of her fifty five surviving poems are elegies written to comfort relatives with eternal life in heaven. Wheatley also wrote about current political events such as the Stamp Act and was a supporter of the American independence.
Phillis Wheatley Poems - Poems by Phillis Wheatley - Poem Hunter
6 days ago · Read all poems by Phillis Wheatley written. Most popular poems of Phillis Wheatley, famous Phillis Wheatley and all 41 poems in this page.
“Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” - Phillis Wheatley
The following are the 39 poems that appear in Phillis Wheatley’s book “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”. To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare. Your subjects hope, dread Sire– The crown upon your brows may flourish long, And that your arm may in your God be strong! (continue reading) See Sewell number’d with the happy dead.
Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects – Digital Collections
Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773) is the first book published by an African-American author, and the frontispiece portrait of Wheatley is the only surviving work by the African-American slave artist Scipio Moorhead (born ca. 1750).
10 Poems by Phillis Wheatley (from Poems on Various Subjects, …
Dec 17, 2018 · 10 poems by Phillis Wheatley from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), the first book by a slave in the American Colonies.