Poems By Phillis Wheatley
- "An Address to the Atheist" and "An Address to the Deist," 1767
- "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" 1768
- "Atheism," July 1769
- "An Elegaic Poem On the Death of that Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned Mr. George Whitefield," 1771
- "A Poem of the Death of Charles Eliot ...," 1 September 1772
- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773; reprinted 1802)
- "To His Honor the Lieutenant Governor on the death of his Lady," 24 March 1773
- "An Elegy, To Miss Mary Moorhead, On the Death of her Father, The Rev. Mr. John Moorhead," 1773
- "An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the Great Divine, the Reverend and the Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper," 1784
- "Liberty and Peace, A Poem" 1784
One of her last poems was dedicated to George Washington.
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