Memoir and Poems of Phillis Whe - African American History
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Whe - African American History
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Whe - African American History
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<strong>Memoir</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Poems</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Phillis</strong> <strong>Whe</strong>atley 85<br />
24.03.2006<br />
Page 101<br />
And with astonished eyes explore<br />
The wide extended main.<br />
Lo! Health appears, celestial dame!<br />
Complacent <strong>and</strong> serene,<br />
With Hebe's mantle o'er her frame,<br />
With soul-delighting mein.<br />
To mark the vale where London lies,<br />
With misty vapors crowned,<br />
Which cloud Aurora's thous<strong>and</strong> dyes,<br />
And veil her charms around,<br />
Why, Phoebus, moves thy car so slow?<br />
So slow thy rising ray?<br />
Give us the famous town to view,<br />
Thou glorious king <strong>of</strong> day!<br />
For thee, Britannia, I resign<br />
New Engl<strong>and</strong>'s smiling fields;<br />
To view again her charms divine;<br />
What joy the prospect yields!<br />
But thou, Temptation, hence away!<br />
With all thy fatal train,<br />
Nor once seduce my soul away,<br />
By thine enchanting strain.<br />
Thrice happy they, whose heavenly shield<br />
Secures their souls from harms,<br />
And fell Temptation on the field<br />
Of all its power disarms!
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