This writer describes how "Commerce and Plenty shine" and recommends that America "sheathe the Sword that bade the Brave attone /
This writer describes how "Commerce and Plenty shine" and recommends that America "sheathe the Sword that bade the Brave attone / With guiltless Blood for Madness not their own." This poet tells the glories of the imperial queen with a faithful tongue in "On Imagination." The author of an elegy for George Whitfield as well as a poem concerning the death of Reverend Dr. Sewell, she asked God to direct and guard from on high in "The King's Most Excellent Majesty" and, after a resettlement, she became aware "there's a God, that there's a Savior too" in "On Being Brought from Africa to America." For 10 points, name this colonial African-American poet.
This writer describes how "Commerce and Plenty shine" and recommends that America "sheathe the Sword that bade the Brave attone /
Phyllis {Wheatley}