ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour’d nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;
In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.
Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev’ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather’d race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.
Ye shady groves, your verdant gloom display
To shield your poet from the burning day:
Calliope awake the sacred lyre,
While thy fair sisters fan the pleasing fire:
The bow’rs, the gales, the variegated skies
In all their pleasures in my bosom rise.
See in the east th’ illustrious king of day!
His rising radiance drives the shades away–
But Oh! I feel his fervid beams too strong,
And scarce begun, concludes th’ abortive song.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Cuckoo Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Moment’s Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Psalm 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Николай Тихонов – И сказал женщине суд
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- The Princess: A Medley: Ask me no more poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Ну что, Кузьма
- Владимир Степанов – Подберёзовик и подосиновик
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- A Hand-Mirror. by Walt Whitman
- Dream With Clam-Diggers by Sylvia Plath
- Иван Крылов – Лев состаревшийся (Басня)
- Иван Дмитриев – Старик и трое молодых
- Song—A Man’s a Man for a’ that by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: She’s Fair And Fause:
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Phillis Wheatley (1753-84), a negro poetess, also an American poet or Afro-American poet, and an English Colonial poet, . She was born in Africa (in Gambia or Senegal) and was aptured by slave traders at the age of eight, she was sold to a family living in Boston, Mass., whose name she bears. While serving as a maid-servant to her proprietor’s wife, she showed an unusual facility with languages. She began writing poetry at the age of thirteen, using as models British poets of the time, especially Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray). In 1773 she accompanied a member of the Wheatley family to England, where she gained widespread attention in literary circles. She subsequently returned to Boston. Her best-known poems are “To the University of Cambridge in New England” (1767), In all honestly Phillis Wheatley should rather be considered English than an Afro-American poet but the exact classification of who she was would depend on the political and cultural views, and biases, of the “classifier.