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
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- Wisdom in Love by Lutfi Abdallah a.k.a Laso
- Psalm 83 poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: On An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”:
- Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
- Blank by Nizar Sartawi
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- Николай Карамзин – Из мелодрамы Петр Великий (Жил был в свете добрый царь)
- An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats
- Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Упрямо я стремлюсь ко дну
- Юлия Друнина – В манеже
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.