Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral |
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User Review - steller0707 - LibraryThingShould you, my lord, while you peruse my song, Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung, Whence flow these wishes for the common good, By feeling hearts alone best understood, I, young in life, by ... Read full review
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User Review - dasam - LibraryThingDerivative but all American poetry was then The poems of Wheatley are as good as anything being written in the colonies at the time, and no worse than much British poetry of the 18th Century written ... Read full review
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