Phillis Wheatley
Sold to slavery at the age of eight ,
Thrown on a ship with no debate,
Sold to a wealthy boston merchant,
Had a love for poetry very much worth it,
Love love for freedom hits,
Children children oh dear children she had,
Three no more but so very young at age she had,
A lady who hasn’t gone mad,
She wasn’t very bad,
She died oh that’s very so sad,
That’s not all I got to add,
she was bought from John wheatley ,
Who had treated her very sweetly,
Phillis wheatley writes so neatly,
What a poem she wrote,
Like a short little note,
Sinking fast away like a little boat,
What a lady what a lady ,
In boston newspapers in February 1772,
Wow what all could she do?
A lady a lady who could do a lot ,
She was greatly taught,
With all her heart to follow her dreams,
Greatly without doubt ,
A book was written all about her in 1773,
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