Let amicitia in her ample reign
Extend her notes to a Celestial strain
Benevolent far more divinely Bright
Amor like me doth triumph at the sight
When my thoughts in gratitude imploy
Mental Imaginations give me Joy
Now let my thoughts in Contemplation steer
The Footsteps of the Superlative fair
Boston July 15 1769
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Раз – два – три – четыре – пять
- The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Infernal Regions
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791 by William Cowper
- Ольга Берггольц – Моя медаль
- Наум Коржавин – Нелепые ваши затеи
- Portals. by Walt Whitman
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Заболоцкий – Счастливый день
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна
- The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade by William Wordsworth
- On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Муки старят красавиц
- Lilian poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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.