Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
1700s
THANATOPSIS by William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
The Time I’ve Lost In Wooing by Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
To Autumn by John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821)
Solitude: An Ode–Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
On Virtue– Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753. She was the first African American to have works published in the United States.