Authors: Phillis Wheatley

1491–1764

Poems

Source: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773), available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america and https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47706/to-the-right-honorable-william-earl-of-dartmouth. On being brought from Africa to America ’TWAS mercy brought me from my

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1491–1764

On Virtue

Source: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than

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1491–1764

Selected Poems

Source: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773), 18, 22–24; The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum, 2 (April 1776), 193. We have modernized spelling and

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