E6 To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America by Phillis Wheatley

Send us Fan MailAn immersive reading of the poem ‘To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health’ by Phillis Wheatley reflecting on get well cards, health care disparities and how illness makes you meet so many people. PoemTo a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health.  INDULGENT muse! my grov’ling mind inspire,  And fill my bosom with celestial fire.  See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves,  Like the fair mother of the blooming loves,  When from above the Goddess with her hand  Fans the soft breeze, and lights upon the land;  Thus she on Neptune’s wat’ry realm reclin’d  Appear’d, and thus invites the ling’ring wind.    “Arise, ye winds, America explore,  “Waft me, ye gales, from this malignant shore;  “The Northern milder climes I long to greet,  “There hope that health will my arrival meet.”   Soon as she spoke in my ideal view  The winds assented, and the vessel flew.    Madam, your spouse bereft of wife and son,  In the grove’s dark recesses pours his moan;  Each branch, wide-spreading to the ambient sky,  Forgets its verdure, and submits to die.    From thence I turn, and leave the sultry plain,  And swift pursue thy passage o’er the main:  The ship arrives before the fav’ring wind,  And makes the Philadelphian port assign’d,  Thence I attend you to Bostonia’s arms,  Where gen’rous friendship ev’ry bosom warms:  Thrice welcome here! may health revive again,  Bloom on thy cheek, and bound in ev’ry vein!  Then back return to gladden ev’ry heart,  And give your spouse his soul’s far dearer part,  Receiv’d again with what a sweet surprise,  The tear in transport starting from his eyes!  While his attendant son with blooming grace  Springs to his father’s ever dear embrace.  With shouts of joy Jamaica’s rocks resound,  With shouts of joy the country rings around.ReferencesFrom: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/409/409-h/409-h.htm Poems on Various Subjects Accessed 9.9.2021Fiscella K, Sanders MR. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Quality of Health Care. Annu Rev Public Health. 2016;37:375-94.LoPresti MA, Dement F, Gold HT. End-of-Life Care for People With Cancer From Ethnic Minority Groups: A Systematic Review. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2016 Apr;33(3):291-305. Burris HH, Hacker MR. Birth outcome racial disparities: A result of intersecting social and environmental factors. Semin Perinatol. 2017 Oct;41(6):360-366.Letters to a Young Poet. Rainer Maria Rilke.