‘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 now knew,
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
‘Their colour is a diabolic die.’
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I Write a Poem by Aiyah De Torres
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Наум Коржавин – Генерал
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Вишневский – Незаконная гордость
- Витамины
- The Fallen House
- Don’t Tell Anyone by Tony Hoagland
- Robert Burns: Lines On Fergusson, The Poet :
- FREEDOM by Mac McGovern
- Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
- Any Poet At Any Time poem – Alfred Austin
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing by William Shakespeare
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.