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In vain the feather’d warblers sing,
In vain the garden blooms,
And on the bosom of the spring
Breathes out her sweet perfumes,
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Chapter List-
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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Chapter_3
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Preface
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Letter to the Publisher
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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To Maecenas
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On Virtue
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To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
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To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768
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On Being Brought from Africa to America
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On the Death of theRev.Dr.Sewell. 1769
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On the Death of theRev.Mr.George Whitefield. 1770
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On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
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On the Death of a Young Gentleman
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To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
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Goliath of Gath
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Thoughts on the Works of Providence
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To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations
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To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady
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An Hymn to the Morning
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An Hymn to the Evening
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Isaiah 63:1–8
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On Recollection
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On Imagination
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A Funeral Poem on the Death ofC. E.An Infant of Twelve Months
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To Captain H⸺d, of the 65th Regiment
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To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America,etc.
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Ode to Neptune
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To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health
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To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina
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To a Lady and Her Children, on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother
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To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, Aged One Year
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On the Death ofDr.Samuel Marshall. 1771
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To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
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To theRev.Dr.Thomas Amory, on Reading His Sermons on Daily Devotion, in Which That Duty Is Recommended and Assisted
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On the Death ofJ. C.An Infant
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An Hymn to Humanity
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To the HonourableT. H.Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
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Niobe in Distress for Her Children Slain by Apollo, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, BookVIand from a View of the Painting ofMr.Richard Wilson
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ToS. M.A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
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To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
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A Farewel to America. ToMrs.S. W.
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A Rebus, byI. B.
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An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of These Poems
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Endnotes