‘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 neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negro’s, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ольга Седакова – Ангел Реймса
- On Woman by William Butler Yeats
- Small Song poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Юрий Галансков – Он к нам придёт
- Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
- On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica by William Cowper
- Николай Гумилев – Луна на море
- For the Men at the Front by John Oxenham
- The Pleiades poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Parabola
- Turn, O Libertad. by Walt Whitman
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Abyss by Pierre Reverdy
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.