The poet asks, and Phillis can’t refuse
To show th’ obedience of the Infant muse.
She knows the Quail of most inviting taste
Fed Israel’s army in the dreary waste;
And what’s on Britain’s royal standard borne,
But the tall, graceful, rampant Unicorn?
The Emerald with a vivid verdure glows
Among the gems which regal crowns compose;
Boston’s a town, polite and debonair,
To which the beaux and beauteous nymphs repair,
Each Helen strikes the mind with sweet surprise,
While living lightning flashes from her eyes,
See young Euphorbus of the Dardan line
By Manelaus’ hand to death resign:
The well known peer of popular applause
Is C——m zealous to support our laws.
Quebec now vanquish’d must obey,
She too much annual tribute pay
To Britain of immortal fame.
And add new glory to her name.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Husband’s Black Hands by Mallika Sengupta
- Children039s Eyes
- A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books by Robert Frost
- Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря
- The Merchant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Did Not by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Маяковский – Плакат о жилищно-строительном займе
- Вера Полозкова – Горький запах полыни
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я счастлив, тайный яд течёт в моей крови
- Transcience by Sarojini Naidu
- Ольга Седакова – Элегия смоковницы
- Из всех искусств кинематограф
- Have Lost You
- Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint 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.