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Phillis Wheatley è stata una poetessa statunitense di origine africana. È stata la prima scrittrice afrostatunitense a veder pubblicata una propria opera, e i suoi scritti rappresentano la nascita del genere noto come letteratura afroamericana.

Nata in Africa, fu catturata e venduta come schiava all'età di sette anni e fu acquistata dalla famiglia Wheatley di Boston. I suoi padroni le insegnarono a leggere e scrivere e la incoraggiarono e sostennero nelle sue aspirazioni letterarie.

La pubblicazione, nel 1773, di Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral le diede la fama e personalità di rilievo come George Washington lodarono il suo lavoro. La Wheatley fece anche un viaggio in Inghilterra e fu celebrata dal poeta afrostatunitense Jupiter Hammon in un suo componimento. Dopo che ebbe raggiunto il successo come poetessa i suoi proprietari le concessero la libertà, ma scelse di restare con la famiglia fino alla morte del suo primo padrone e alla conseguente diaspora della famiglia. Sposò quindi un nero anch'egli libero, che però la lasciò ben presto. Morì in miseria nel 1784, mentre stava lavorando ad un secondo libro di poesie, andato poi perduto. Wikipedia  

✵ 1753 – 5. Dicembre 1784
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Phillis Wheatley: Frasi in inglese

“As when Eolus heaven's fair face deforms, Enwrapp'd in tempest and a night of storms; Astonish'd ocean feels the wild uproar, The refluent surges beat the sounding shore; Or thick as leaves in Autumn's golden reign”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“But, Madam, let your grief be laid aside,
And let the fountain of your tears be dry'd,
In vain they flow to wet the dusty plain,
Your sighs are wafted to the skies in vain,
Your pains they witness, but they can no more,
While Death reigns tyrant o'er this mortal shore.”

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"To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name of Avis, aged one Year." st. 2, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

“Thee, first in peace and honor - we demand The grace and glory of thy martial band. Fam'd for thy valor, for thy virtues more, Hear every tongue thy guardian aid implore! One century scarce perform'd its destined round”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“Such, and so many, moves the warrior's train. In bright array they seek the work of war, Where high unfurl'd the ensign waves in air. Shall I to Washington their praise recite? Enough thou know'st them in the fields of fight.”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“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”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“When Gallic powers Columbia's fury found; And so may you, whoever dares disgrace The land of freedom's heaven-defended race! Fix'd are the eyes of nations on the scales, For in their hopes Columbia's arm prevails.”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

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

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To A young African painter from Poems on Various Subjects kindle ebook ASIN B0083ZJ7SU

“No more, America, in mournful strain
Of wrongs, and grievance unredress'd complain,
No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain,
Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand
Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land.
Should 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 seeming cruel fate
Was snatch'd from Afric's fancy'd happy seat:
What pangs excruciating must molest,
What sorrows labour in my parent's breast?
Steel'd was that soul and by no misery mov'd
That from a father seiz'd his babe belov'd:
Such, such my case. And can I then but pray
Others may never feel tyrannic sway?”

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"To The Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth" st. 2-3, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

“Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“Olive and laurel binds her golden hair: Wherever shines this native of the skies, Unnumber'd charms and recent graces rise. Muse! bow propitious while my pen relates How pour her armies through a thousand gates”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“But how is Mneme dreaded by the race,
Who scorn her warnings and despise her grace?
By her unveil'd each horrid crime appears,
Her awful hand a cup of wormwood bears.
Days, years mispent, O what a hell of woe!
Hers the worst tortures that our souls can know.”

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"On Recollection" st. 2 lines 7-12, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

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

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Works of Providence from Poems on Various Subjects kindle ebook ASIN B0083ZJ7SU

“Thy ev'ry action let the goddess guide. A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine, With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! be thine.”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“Anon Britannia droops the pensive head, While round increase the rising hills of dead. Ah! cruel blindness to Columbia's state! Lament thy thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side”

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1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)

“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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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" lines 5-8, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

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