YOUR subjects hope, dread Sire–
The crown upon your brows may flourish long,
And that your arm may in your God be strong!
O may your sceptre num’rous nations sway,
And all with love and readiness obey!
But how shall we the British king reward!
Rule thou in peace, our father, and our lord!
Midst the remembrance of thy favours past,
The meanest peasants most admire the last*
May George, beloved by all the nations round,
Live with heav’ns choicest constant blessings crown’d!
Great God, direct, and guard him from on high,
And from his head let ev’ry evil fly!
And may each clime with equal gladness see
A monarch’s smile can set his subjects free!
* The Repeal of the Stamp Act.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Урал
- Teaching Children to Write by Free Writing
- The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- Юнна Мориц – На смерть Джульетты
- Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua by Stephen Vincent Benet
- An Interchanging Poetry Expression Of Love by Mac McGovern
- The End of the World
- Bill ‘Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
- To Make A Dadist Poem by Tristan Tzara
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Lover’s Gifts XIX: It Is Written in the Book by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ребенку
- Crossroads by Roger Hayes
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.