Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain;
Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing,
Exhales the incense of the blooming spring.
Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes,
And through the air their mingled music floats.
Through all the heav’ns what beauteous dies are spread!
But the west glories in the deepest red:
So may our breasts with ev’ry virtue glow,
The living temples of our God below!
Fill’d with the praise of him who gives the light,
And draws the sable curtains of the night,
Let placid slumbers sooth each weary mind,
At morn to wake more heav’nly, more refin’d;
So shall the labours of the day begin
More pure, more guarded from the snares of sin.
Night’s leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes,
Then cease, my song, till fair Aurora rise.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Autumn by Walter Savage Landor
- Sonnet LIII by William Shakespeare
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Rain After a Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benet
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 42. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Know thy SELF by Neelam Sinha
- Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare
- AMBITION by Robert Herrick
- Иван Козлов – Умирающая Эрменгарда
- walking with a staff by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood by William Cullen Bryant
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о погибшем лётчике
- Any Night by Philip Levine
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.