‘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
- Chorus of Youths and Virgins poem – Alexander Pope
- On One Ignorant And Arrogant (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper
- Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
- A Slice Of School by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Dedication From Moremi by Wole Soyinka
- Зинаида Александрова – Молодой месяц
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
- The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan
- Ольга Берггольц – На Ивана-пьющего
- March poem – A. E. Housman
- Patience by Rabindranath Tagore
- An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq. by William Cowper
- Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
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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.