This figure was admonished, "O come, you pious youth; adore / The wisdom of thy God" in a poem to her by Jupiter Hammon. This poet argues, "'Tis Satan's snares a-fluttering in
This figure was admonished, "O come, you pious youth; adore / The wisdom of thy God" in a poem to her by Jupiter Hammon. This poet argues, "'Tis Satan's snares a-fluttering in the wind / Whereby he has ensnared thy foolish mind" in her "Deism", a lost work published in 1977 in the New England Quarterly.  The Christianity she was taught informed much more of her poetry, including "Goliath of Gath", but she also penned an ode to Neptune on a mistress's voyage to England. Thomas Jefferson panned her compositions as "beneath the dignity of criticism," and Henry Louis Gates has written on the Trials of, for 10 points, what author of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, a Boston slave and founding figure in African-American literature?
This figure was admonished, "O come, you pious youth; adore /
Phillis {Wheatley}