A poem by this author imagines a "splendid city, crown'd with endless day, whose twice six gates on radiant hinges ring" where the addressee, the painter "S.M.," will no longer paint "Damon" or "Aurora.
A poem by this author imagines a "splendid city, crown'd with endless day, whose twice six gates on radiant hinges ring" where the addressee, the painter "S.M.," will no longer paint "Damon" or "Aurora." One of this author's poems advises Christians to remember that certain people "may be refined and join th' angelic train." One of this author's poems states "Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side" and begins "Celestial (*) choir! enthron'd in realms of light." This poet addressed a "happy saint" in an elegy on George Whitefield's death and opened another poem with the line "mercy brought me from my pagan land." For 10 points, name this author of "To His Excellency George Washington" and "On Being Brought from Africa to America," an early female African-American poet.
A poem by this author imagines a "splendid city, crown'd with endless day, whose twice six gates on radiant hinges ring" where the addressee, the painter "S.M.," will no longer paint "Damon" or "Aurora.
Phillis Wheatley