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LIBERTY AND PEACE. LO! Freedom comes. Th' prescient Muse foretold, All Eyes th' accomplish'd Prophecy behold: Her Port describ'd, "She moves divinely fair, "Olive and Laurel bind her golden Hair." She, the bright Progeny of Heaven, descends, And every Grace her sovereign Step attends; For now kind Heaven, indulgent to our Prayer,
“Liberty and Peace,” by Phillis Wheatley, is a sixty-six-line meditation celebrating the genesis of the United States of America as a country separate from Great Britain: “Lo! Freedom comes.”
E'en great Britannia sees with dread Surprize, And from the dazzl'ing Splendors turns her Eyes! Britain , whose Navies swept th' Atlantic o'er, And Thunder sent to every distant Shore: E'en thou, in Manners cruel as thou art, The Sword resign'd, resume the friendly Part!
We start this pick of the best poems about freedom with an unusual choice: a poem that is about the value of being restricted or confined. Wordsworth considers some examples of people who actually prefer to have a ‘scanty plot of ground’, much as the sonnet-writer makes do with just 14 lines.
The voice of a young woman emerges in her poetry, struggling with the contradictions of racial prejudice and slavery in an age of liberation. Phillis Wheatley was born in Senegal on the West African coast in 1753. She was sold into enslavement at the age of seven, and sent to America.
Subject terms United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry. Poems -- 1784.
8 Ιουλ 2024 · Taken as a whole, “Liberty and Peace” recounts the terrible experiences of the Revolutionary War, and then expresses happiness because “smiling Peace resolves [clears up] the Din of War” and America’s future of prosperity and freedom will be bright.
