‘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
- The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough
- Mariana poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
- Михаил Кузмин – Вот после ржавых львов и рева
- Orlando Furioso Canto 24 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий, читай постановление СТО от 15 июня 1921 года (Главполитпросвет №222)
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 11. Calm is the morn without a sound poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Song Unsung by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Что меня ожидает, неведомо мне
- Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Гиппиус – Узел
- Наум Коржавин – Грустная самопародия
- In The Night by Stevie Smith
- Низами Гянджеви – Увы, на этой лужайке, где согнут страстью я,
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.