"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,"
React to this quote
More by Phillis Wheatley
See allResonant Thoughts
"I thought fit to leave this testimony to the world, that, as I had from my youth endeavored to uphold the Common rights of mankind, the lawes of this land, and the true Protestant religion, against co…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Let Divines, and Philosophers, Statesmen and Patriots unite their endeavours to renovate the Age, by impres…"
— Samuel Adams"The sixth edition includes a whole new part, on the character of virtue, and some drastic revision elsewher…"
— D. D. Raphael"Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,If ever deed of hon…"
— John Milton"I do not think the line of division runs between people with secular and those with transcendental creeds, …"
— Otto Neurath"A man cannot be allowed to neglect a duty which he has undertaken."
— Henry Bickersteth"The poetical character...is not itself—it has no self—it is everything and nothing...It has as much delight…"
— John Keats
