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Subject: WHEATLEY, PHILLIS (1753-1784)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER FROM PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear obour / our crossing was without
Subject(s): Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)


BALLAD FOR PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pretty little black girl
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)


LETTER FROM PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear obour %our crossing was without
Last Line: Abundantly. In his name, %phillis
Subject(s): Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)


PHILLIS WHEATLEY: SOLILOQUY, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Memory moves in the mind like moon on water
Subject(s): Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)


SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Black Heritage


SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet
Last Line: Your early verse sweetens the fame of our race
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)


WROTE AFTER READING SOME POEMS COMPOSED BY PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by UNKNOWN+181    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why stand amaz'd at afric's muse!
Last Line: Hence know 'tis learning forms the mind, %else reason's but a dream
Subject(s): Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)