This author of "To His Excellency George Washington" published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773, and often appealed to the "Afric muse.
She wrote about "soaring through air" in order to "leave the rolling universe behind" and "Measure the skies, and range the realms above" in "On Imagination." She wrote that "Gallic powers Columbia's fury found" in a poem prophesying that Brittania will soon "droop" its "pensive head / While round increase the rising hills of dead." Her portrait was painted by Scipio Moorhead, and her first published poem elegized the Methodist reformer George Whitefield. This author of "To His Excellency George Washington" published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773, and often appealed to the "Afric muse." FTP, name this author who wrote "Christians, Negroes, black as Cain / May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train" in "On Being Brought From Africa to America," an 18th century American poet brought to Massachusetts as a slave.
She wrote about "soaring through air" in order to "leave the rolling universe behind" and "Measure the skies, and range the realms above" in "On Imagination."
Phyllis {Wheatley}