Phillis Wheatley: Herring

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“See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan, And nations gaze at scenes before unknown! See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light Involved in sorrows and the veil of night! The goddess comes, she moves divinely fair”

Phillis Wheatley

1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

Fate , Light , Night

“Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.”

Phillis Wheatley

1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

Freedom , Light

“Olive and laurel binds her golden hair: Wherever shines this native of the skies, Unnumber'd charms and recent graces rise. Muse! bow propitious while my pen relates How pour her armies through a thousand gates”

Phillis Wheatley

1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“But how is Mneme dreaded by the race,
Who scorn her warnings and despise her grace?
By her unveil'd each horrid crime appears,
Her awful hand a cup of wormwood bears.
Days, years mispent, O what a hell of woe!
Hers the worst tortures that our souls can know.”

Phillis Wheatley

"On Recollection" st. 2 lines 7-12, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

Soul , Hell , Appearance