‘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
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Holy Willie:
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
- Стефан Малларме – Гробница Эдгара По
- Robert Burns: Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The:
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Sonnet CX by William Shakespeare
- To G.A.W. poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- Poem by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Additions: The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s by Thomas Hardy
- Eternity by William Blake
- Огюст Барбье – Рафаэль
- If I Had A Brontosaurus by Shel Silverstein
- Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain by William Wordsworth
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
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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.