Category: 18th Century

18th Century, African-American, America, American, American Poetry, Poetry, United States

February 3, 2023

“The Slave’s Complaint”

“Am I sadly cast aside, On misfortune’s rugged tide? Will the world my pains deride Forever?”
18th Century, African-American, Lucy Terry, poet, Poetry, United States, women, women poets

February 2, 2023

“Bars Fight”

August ’twas the twenty-fifth, Seventeen hundred forty-six; The Indians did in ambush lay, Some very valiant men to slay, The names of whom I’ll not leave out.
18th Century, African-American, Literature, Phillis Wheatley, Phyllis Wheatley, poet, Poetry, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

February 14, 2022

“To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth”

“May fiery coursers sweep th’ ethereal plain, And bear thee upwards to that blest abode, Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy God.”
18th Century, African-American, American, American Poetry, Black History, Poetry, Uncategorized

February 3, 2022

From “An Anniversary Poem, Entitled, ‘The Progress of Liberty” by James Madison Bell (1826 – 1902)

“Though slavery’s dead, yet there remains A work for those from whom the chains Today are falling one by one; Nor should they deem their labor done,”— from “An Anniversary Poem, Entitled, ‘The Progress of Liberty” by James Madison Bell
18th Century, African-American, American Poetry, Black History, Phillis Wheatley

February 1, 2021

From “To the Right Honoruable William, Earl of Dartmouth” by Phillis Wheatley

Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song, Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung, Whence flow these wishes for the common good, By feeling hearts alone best understood, I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat: What pangs excruciating must molest, What sorrows labour in…
17th Century, 18th Century, Uncategorized

September 16, 2018

“To a Young Lady, With Some Lampreys” by John Gay (1685 – 1732)

“To a Young Lady, With Some Lampreys” by John Gay With lovers, ’twas of old the fashion By presents to convey their passion; No matter what the gift they sent, The Lady saw that love was meant. Fair Atalanta, as a favour, Took the boar’s head her Hero gave her; Nor could the bristly thing affront…
18th Century, Augustan Period, British Poetry, European Poetry, James Thomson, Uncategorized

September 11, 2018

“Rule Britannia” by James Thomson (1700 – 1748)

“…Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. “Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves…” ”
18th Century, American Poetry, Uncategorized, women poets

September 4, 2018

“The Watcher” by SARAH JOSEPHA HALE (1787 – 1900)

#Poetry by Sarah Josepha Hale— “…A hundred lights are glancing In yonder mansion fair, And merry feet are dancing— They heed not morning there…”
18th Century, African-American, American, American Poetry, Black History, Poetry, Uncategorized

February 19, 2018

“Frederick Douglass” by Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. (1861 – 1949)

“…Howe’er this be, just fame has set Her jewels in thy coronet So firmly that the ages To come will ever honor thee And place thy name in company With patriots and sages…”
18th Century, African-American, American, American Poetry, Black History, Poetry, Uncategorized

February 19, 2018

“Robert G. Shaw” by Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1850? – 1916)

“…Unto her honored sons; for it was ay A loftier cause that lured him on to death. Brave men who saw their brothers held in chains, Beneath his standard battled ardently…”