Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
"To the Hon. T. H. Esq; on the Death of His Daughter."
by Phillis Wheatley
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress–shade
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress–shade
NO more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rife,
WHERE contemplation finds her sacred spring,
HAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,
MNEME begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine,
ERE yet the morn its lovely blushes spread,
ALL–Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne,
THROUGH airy roads he wings his instant flight
THY various works, imperial queen, we see,
MAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade,
A R I S E, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise
YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine,
Du Bois discusses the progression of the black man after emancipation.
Dobbin delivers a letter to George.