Poems on various subjects, religious and moral

Phillis Wheatley

P R E F A C E. THE following POEMS were written originally for the Amusement of the Author, as they were the Products of her leisure Moments.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.