When first thy pencil did these beaties give And breathing … - Phillis Wheatley

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When first thy pencil did these beaties give And breathing figures learnt from thee to live

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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was a slave in Boston, Massachusetts, where her master's family taught her to read and write, and encouraged her poetry. Her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first published book by an African American. It was published in London because Bostonian publishers refused. In London she met the Countess of Huntington.

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Alternative Names: Phillis Wheatley Peters • Phillis Peters • Philis Wheatley

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See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan, And nations gaze at scenes before unknown! See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light Involved in sorrows and the veil of night! The goddess comes, she moves divinely fair,

Creation smiles in various beauty gay
While day to night, and night succeeds day

Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

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