On Mrs. W—–‘s Voyage to England.
I.
WHILE raging tempests shake the shore,
While AElus’ thunders round us roar,
And sweep impetuous o’er the plain
Be still, O tyrant of the main;
Nor let thy brow contracted frowns betray,
While my Susanna skims the wat’ry way.
II.
The Pow’r propitious hears the lay,
The blue-ey’d daughters of the sea
With sweeter cadence glide along,
And Thames responsive joins the song.
Pleas’d with their notes Sol sheds benign his ray,
And double radiance decks the face of day.
III.
To court thee to Britannia’s arms
Serene the climes and mild the sky,
Her region boasts unnumber’d charms,
Thy welcome smiles in ev’ry eye.
Thy promise, Neptune keep, record my pray’r,
Not give my wishes to the empty air.
End of the poem
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- Владимир Высоцкий – Здесь сидел ты, Валет
- Владимир Маяковский – Не увлекайтесь нами
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь
- Sonnet CXLIV by William Shakespeare
- New York at Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Still Life by Piera Chen
- Юлия Жадовская – Ах, бабушкин сад
- Between the Dusk of a Summer Night by William Ernest Henley
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns
- Pay your last respects by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Monday by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Meeting by William Butler Yeats
- A Dedication
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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.