Introduction

Vincent Carretta

Suggestions for Further Reading

A Note on Money

Acknowledgments

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Dedication

Preface

Copy of a Letter sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher

To the Publick

To Maecenas

On Virtue

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1768

On being brought from Africa to America

On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770

On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age

On the Death of a young Gentleman

To a Lady on the Death of her Husband

Goliath of Gath

Thoughts on the Works of Providence

To a Lady on the Death of Three Relations

To a Clergyman on the Death of his Lady

An Hymn to the Morning

An Hymn to the Evening

Isaiah lxiii. 1-8

On Recollection

On Imagination

A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. an Infant of Twelve Months

To Captain H---D, of the 65th Regiment

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c

ODE to Neptune. On Mrs. W---'s Voyage to England

To a Lady on her coming to North-America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health

To a Lady on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina

To a Lady and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, aged one Year

On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771

To a Gentleman on his Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of his Health

To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory on reading his Sermons on Daily Devotion, in which that Duty is recommended and assisted

On the Death of J. C. an Infant

An Hymn to Humanity. To S. P. G. Esq

To the Honourable T. H. Esq; on the Death of his Daughter

NIOBE in Distress for her children slain by Apollo, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. and from a view of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson

To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works

To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of his Lady. March 24, 1773

A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W

A Rebus, by I. B

An Answer to the Rebus, by the Author of these Poems

Extant Poems Not Published in Poems on Various Subjects

Atheism

An Address to the Atheist

Deism

An Address to the Deist---1767---

On Messrs Hussey and Coffin

America

To the Hon.ble Commodore Hood on his Pardoning a Deserter

On Friendship

On the Death of Mr. Snider Murder'd

Richardson

Ocean

An Elegy, To Miss. Mary Moorhead, on the Death of her Father, The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead

[To a Gentleman of the Navy.]

The Answer [By the Gentleman of the Navy.]

Philis's [sic] Reply to the Answer in our last by the Gentleman in the Navy

To His Excellency General Washington

On the Capture of General Lee

On the Death of General Wooster

To Mr. and Mrs.---, on the Death of their Infant Son

Prayer

An Elegy Sacred to the Memory of the Rev'd Samuel Cooper, D.D

An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of That Great Divine, the Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper

Liberty and Peace, a Poem

An Elegy on Leaving---

Variants of Poems Published in Poems on Various Subjects

To the University of Cambridge, wrote in 1767---

To The King's Most Excellent Majesty on his Repealing the American Stamp Act

On the Decease of the Revd Doctr Sewall [variant 1]

On the Decease of the rev'd Dr. Sewell [variant 2]

On the Death of the Rev'd Dr. Sewall, 1769. [variant 3]

An Elegiac Poem, On the Death of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c &c. [variant 1]

An Ode of Verses On the much-lamented Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, Late Chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon [variant 2]

To Mrs. Leonard, on the Death of her Husband

On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall [variant 1]

On the Death of Doctor Samuel Marshall. [variant 2]

Recollection

Recollection. To Miss A---M---

To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the Death of his Lady

A Poem on the Death of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months [variant 1]

A Poem the death of Charles Eliot aged 12 months. [variant 2]

To the Right Honl. William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth [variant 1]

To the Right Honl William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth [variant 2]

To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; On the Death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard

To the Empire of America, Beneath the Western Hemisphere. Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W. [variant 1]

Farewell to America [variant 2]

Letters

To the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770)

To Abigail May? (November or December 1771)

To John Thornton (April 21, 1772)

To Arbour Tanner (May 19, 1772)

To Arbour Tanner (July 19, 1772)

To the Earl of Dartmouth (October 10, 1772)

To the Countess of Huntingdon (June 27, 1773)

To the Countess of Huntingdon (July 17, 1773)

To David Worcester (October 18, 1773)

To Obour Tanner (October 30, 1773)

To John Thornton (December 1, 1773)

To the Reverend Samuel Hopkins (February 9, 1774)

To Samson Occom (February 11, 1774)

To Obur Tanner (March 21, 1774)

To John Thornton (March 29, 1774)

To Obour Tanner (May 6, 1774)

To the Reverend Samuel Hopkins (May 6, 1774)

To John Thornton (October 30, 1774)

To George Washington (October 26, 1775)

To Obour Tanner (May 29, 1778)

To Mary Wooster (July 15, 1778)

To Obour Tanner (May 10, 1779)

Variant Letters

To the Countess of Huntingdon (October 25, 1770)

To the Earl of Dartmouth (June 3, 1773)

Proposals for Volumes of Poetry

Proposal for Printing by Subscription (February 29, 1772)

Proposals (April 16, 1773)

Proposals (October 30, 1779)

Wheatley's Final Proposal (September 1784)

Notes

Appendix A: Possible Wheatley variant of ``Hymn to Humanity''; Possible new Phillis Wheatley poem, ``The Voice of Freedom''

Appendix B: Lucy Terry Price

Bars Fight

Appendix C: Jupiter Hammon

An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ, With Penetential Cries

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly [sic]

``A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death''

A Dialogue Entitledd the Kind Master and Dutiful Servant

Appendix D: Francis Williams

An ODE