"Winter austere forbids me to aspire, / And northern tempests damp the rising fire; / They chill the tides of Fancy's flowing sea, / Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay."
On Imagination [from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
At least 5 entries in ESTC (1773, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1793).<br>
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See <u>Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England.</u> (London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T153734">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Vincent Carretta's <u>Unchained Voices</u> (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2004): 62.