To cultivate in ev’ry noble mind
Habitual grace, and sentiments refin’d,
Thus while you strive to mend the human heart,
Thus while the heav’nly precepts you impart,
O may each bosom catch the sacred fire,
And youthful minds to Virtue’s throne aspire!
When God’s eternal ways you set in sight,
And Virtue shines in all her native light,
In vain would Vice her works in night conceal,
For Wisdom’s eye pervades the sable veil.
Artists may paint the sun’s effulgent rays,
But Amory’s pen the brighter God displays:
While his great works in Amory’s pages shine,
And while he proves his essence all divine,
The Atheist sure no more can boast aloud
Of chance, or nature, and exclude the God;
As if the clay without the potter’s aid
Should rise in various forms, and shapes self-made,
Or worlds above with orb o’er orb profound
Self-mov’d could run the everlasting round.
It cannot be–unerring Wisdom guides
With eye propitious, and o’er all presides.
Still prosper, Amory! still may’st thou receive
The warmest blessings which a muse can give,
And when this transitory state is o’er,
When kingdoms fall, and fleeting Fame’s no more,
May Amory triumph in immortal fame,
A nobler title, and superior name!
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Campera, the Foreigner y el Novio by Marjorie Kanter
- Scoring Highly on the Psychopathy Scale by P.J.Reed
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Федор Тютчев – Как птичка, раннею зарей
- A Schoolyard Shame by Ryan Isaacson
- Ballad for Gloom poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Василий Жуковский – Из альбома, подаренного Ростопчиной (Пушкин)
- Низами Гянджеви – Жить в заботе и невзгодах, расточая зло
- How Sleep the Brave by Walter de la Mare
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 26. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Instead of farewell by Vinko Kalinić
- The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ольга Седакова – Сказочка
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.