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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral: Dedication

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Dedication
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table of contents
  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Dedication
  4. Preface
  5. Letter to the Publisher
  6. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
    1. To Maecenas
    2. On Virtue
    3. To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
    4. To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768
    5. On Being Brought from Africa to America
    6. On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769
    7. On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
    8. On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
    9. On the Death of a Young Gentleman
    10. To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
    11. Goliath of Gath
    12. Thoughts on the Works of Providence
    13. To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
    14. To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
    15. An Hymn to the Morning
    16. An Hymn to the Evening
    17. Isaiah 63:1–8
    18. On Recollection
    19. On Imagination
    20. A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. An Infant of Twelve Months
    21. To Captain H——d, of the 65th Regiment
    22. To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, etc.
    23. Ode to Neptune
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    24. To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
    25. To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
    26. To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
    27. To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, Aged One Year
    28. On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771
    29. To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
    30. To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory, on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
    31. On the Death of J. C. An Infant
    32. An Hymn to Humanity
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    33. To the Honourable T. H. Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
    34. Niobe in Distress for Her Children Slain by Apollo, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI and from a View of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson
    35. To S. M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
    36. To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
    37. A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W.
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
      11. XI
      12. XII
      13. XIII
    38. A Rebus, by I. B.
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    39. An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems
  7. Endnotes
  8. Colophon
  9. Uncopyright

To the Right Honourable the
Countess of Huntingdon,
The following
Poems
Are most respectfully
Inscribed,
By her much obliged,
Very humble,
And devoted Servant,

Phillis Wheatley.

Boston, June 12, 1771.

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