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Auspicious Heaven shall fill with fav'ring Gales, Where e'er Columbia spreads her swelling Sails: To every Realm shall Peace her Charms display, And Heavenly Freedom spread her golden Ray.
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Liberty and peace, a poem. / By Phillis Peters. Author....
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Liberty and Peace, A Poem. By Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784. Boston: Printed by Warden and Russell, at their office in Marlborough-Street, 1784.
Freedom and liberty have proved to be popular topics for poets down the ages, whether it’s Romantic poets espousing the values of liberty in the wake of the French Revolution or more recent poets musing upon the various meanings of freedom in the world.
Like all but five of Phillis Wheatley’s surviving poems, “Liberty and Peace” is a poem that relies primarily on the English neoclassical devices of the heroic couplet: end rhyme, iambic...
Liberty and Peace, a Poem. by Phillis Wheatley. 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;
During the year of her death (1784), she was able to publish, under the name Phillis Peters, a masterful 64-line poem in a pamphlet entitled Liberty and Peace, which hailed America as “Columbia” victorious over “Britannia Law.” Proud of her nation’s intense struggle for freedom that, to her, bespoke an eternal spiritual greatness ...
Liberty and peace, a poem. / By Phillis Peters. Author. Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784. Publication. Boston: :: Printed by Warden and Russell, at their office in Marlborough-Street., M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784] Rights/Permissions.
