‘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
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- The Novelist by W H Auden
- Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Николай Огарев – Она никогда его не любила
- Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Fabliau Of Florida by Wallace Stevens
- King And No King by William Butler Yeats
- On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Виктор Гюго – Без книги в мире ночь и ум людской убог
- To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- Юлия Друнина – Я курила недолго, давно, на войне
- A Girl Sang a Song poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Sacred Epiphany poem – Ammar Nadeem poems | Poems and Poetry
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.