The collected works of Phillis Wheatley

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. To Maecenas

On virtue

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1768

On being brought from Africa to America

On the death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell 1769

On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770

On the death of a young lady of five years of age

On the death of a young gentleman

To a lady on the death of her husband

Goliath of Gath

Thoughts on the works of Providence

To a lady on the death of three relations

To a clerygman on the death of his lady

An hymn to the morning

An hymn to the evening

Isaiah LXIII. 1-8

On recollection

On imagination

A funeral poem on the death of C.E. an infant of twelve months

To Captain H-d, of the 65th Regiment

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America

Ode to Neptune. On Mrs. W-'s voyage to England

To a lady on her coming to North America with her son, for the recovery of her health

To a lady on her remarkable preservation in an hurricane in North-Carolina

To a lady and her children, on the death of her son and their brother

To a gentleman and lady on the death of the lady's brother and sister, and a child of the name Avis, aged one year

On the death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771

To a gentleman on his voyage to Great-Britain for the recovery of his health

To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his sermons on daily devotion, in which that duty is recommended and assisted

On the death of J.C. an infant

An hymn to humanity. To S.P.G. Esq.

To the Honourable T.H. Esq; on the death of his daughter

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

To S.M. a young African painter, on seeing his works

To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the death of his lady. March 24, 1773

A farewel to America. To Mrs. S.W.

A rebus, by I.B.

An answer to the rebus, by the author of these poems.

Extant poems not included in the 1773 poems. Atheism

An address to the deist

On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin

America

To the Honble. Commodore Hood on his pardoning a deserter

On friendship

On the death of Mr. Snider murder'd by Richardson

An elegy to Miss Mary Moorhead, on the death of her father, the Rev. Mr. John Moorhead

To a gentleman of the Navy

The answer [by the gentleman of the Navy]

Phillis's reply to the answer

To His Excellency General Washington

On the capture of General Lee

On the death of General Wooster

To Mr. and Mrs. - on the death of their infant son

An elegy sacred to the memory of that great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper

Liberty and peace

An elegy on leaving

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Prose. Letters. To the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770)

Madam [to Abigail May?] (November or December 1771)

Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (April 21, 1772)

to Abour Tanner, in Newport (May 19, 1772)

to Arbour Tanner, in Newport (July 19, 1772)

My Lord [Earl of Dartmouth] (October 10, 1772)

Madam [the Countess of Huntingdon] (June 27, 1773)

Madam [the Countess of Huntingdon] (July 17, 1773)

Sir [David Wooster] (October 18, 1773)

To Obour Tanner, in New Port (October 30, 1773)

Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (December 1, 1773)

[To the Rev. Samuel Hopkins] (February 9, 1774)

Reverend and Honoured Sir [to Samson Occom] (February 11, 1774)

to Miss Obour Tanner, Newport (March 21, 1774)

Much Honoured Sir [John Thornton] (March 29, 1774)

To Miss Obour Tanner, New Port, Rhode Island (May 6, 1774)

Rev'd Sir [Samuel Hopkins] (May 6, 1774)

Much Hon'd Sir [John Thornton] (October 30, 1774)

Sir [George Washington] (October 26, 1775)

Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (May 29, 1778)

Madam [Mary Wooster] (July 15, 1778)

Miss Obour Tanner, Worcester (May 10, 1779)

Proposals for volumes. Proposals for printing by subscription (February 29, 1772)

Proposals (October 30, 1779)

Wheatley's final proposal (September 1784)

Prayer : Sabbath - June 13, 1779.

Variant poems and letters. Poems. To the University of Cambridge, wrote in 1767

On Atheism [Variant I]

On Atheism [Variant II]

Deism

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty on his repealing the American Stamp Act

On the death of the Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1769

To Mrs. Leonard, on the death of her husband

An Elegiac poem, on the death of George Whitefield [Variant I]

An ode of verses on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield [Variant II]

On the death of Doctor Samuel Marshall

Recollection, to Miss A-, M-

To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady

To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; on the death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard

To the Right Honourable William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth

To the Empire of America, beneath the Western Hemisphere. Farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W. [Variant I]

Farewell to America [Variant II]

An elegy sacred to the memory of the Rev'd Samuel Cooper, D.D.

On the death of J.C. an infant

Letters. Most Notable Lady [the Countess of Huntingdon] (October 25, 1770

My Lord [Dartmouth] (June 3, 1773).

Phillis Wheatley's struggle for freedom in her poetry and prose / John C. Shields.