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    1) The document contains poetic excerpts from several American writers from different time periods, including Phillis Wheatley, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abigail Adams, and Emily Dickinson. 2) An excerpt from Phillis Wheatley reflects on her experience being brought from Africa to America as a slave and finding redemption through Christianity. 3) An excerpt from Abigail Adams urges her husband to "Remember the Ladies" and be more generous to women in the new laws, warning that women will foment rebellion if they have no voice or representation. 4) Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody! Who are You?" explores themes of individual

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    1) The document contains poetic excerpts from several American writers from different time periods, including Phillis Wheatley, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abigail Adams, and Emily Dickinson. 2) An excerpt from Phillis Wheatley reflects on her experience being brought from Africa to America as a slave and finding redemption through Christianity. 3) An excerpt from Abigail Adams urges her husband to "Remember the Ladies" and be more generous to women in the new laws, warning that women will foment rebellion if they have no voice or representation. 4) Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody! Who are You?" explores themes of individual

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    Literature of the English Speaking Countries II 1

    Poetic Fragments of American Writers from different periods

    On Being Brought From Africa to America abhor those customs which treat us only as the
    vassals of your Sex. Regard us then as Beings
    (Phillis Whatley) placed by providence under your protection and in
    immitation of the Supreem Being make use of
    'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
    that power only for our happiness.
    Taught my benighted soul to understand
    That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
    Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
    James Russell Lowell
    "Their colour is a diabolic die."
    Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, THEY are slaves who fear to speak
    May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. For the fallen and the weak;
    They are slaves who will not choose
    Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
    ------------------------------------------------------ Rather than in silence shrink
    From the truth they needs must think;
    Remember the Ladies They are slaves who dare not be
    In the right with two or three.
    (Abigail Adams)
    -----------------------------------------
    Braintree March 31, 1776
    RALPH WALDO EMERSON
    Tho we felicitate ourselves, we sympathize with
    those who are trembling least the Lot of Boston “Friendship”
    should be theirs. But they cannot be in similar
    circumstances unless pusilanimity and cowardise
    A RUDDY drop of manly blood
    should take possession of them. They have time
    The surging sea outweighs,
    The world uncertain comes and
    and warning given them to see the Evil and shun
    goes;
    it.-I long to hear that you have declared an
    The lover rooted stays.
    independancy-and by the way in the new Code of
    I fancied he was fled,— 5
    Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you
    And, after many a year,
    to make I desire you would Remember the
    Glowed unexhausted kindliness,
    Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to
    Like daily sunrise there.
    them than your ancestors. Do not put such
    My careful heart was free again,
    unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
    O friend, my bosom said, 10
    Remember all Men would be tyrants if they
    Through thee alone the sky is
    could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid
    arched,
    to the Laidies we are determined to foment a
    Through thee the rose is red;
    Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by
    All things through thee take
    any Laws in which we have no voice, or nobler form,
    Representation. And look beyond the earth,
    That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth The mill-round of our fate appears 15
    so thoroughly established as to admit of no A sun-path in thy worth.
    dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy Me too thy nobleness has taught
    willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the To master my despair;
    more tender and endearing one of Friend. Why The fountains of my hidden life
    then, not put it out of the power of the vicious Are through thy friendship fair. 1 20
    and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and
    indignity with impunity. Men of Sense in all Ages
    Literature of the English Speaking Countries II 2
    Poetic Fragments of American Writers from different periods

    EMILY DICKINSON
    I'm Nobody! Who are
    You?
    I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there's a pair of us -
    don't tell!
    They'd banish us, you
    know.

    How dreary to be
    somebody!
    How public, like a frog
    To tell your name the
    livelong day
    To an admiring bog!

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