1768 in poetry

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John Dickinson, "A Song for Freedom "
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, "The Dream of the Patriotic Philosophical Farmer", political verse advocating an American embargo on British goods, Colonial America
Milcah Martha Moore, "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768", Colonial America
Phillis Wheatley writes "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty," in which she praises George III for repealing the Stamp Act. Wheatley would later become a strong supporter of the American Revolution.
"The Liberty Song" appears on July 16 in the Boston Gazette, called "probably the first American patriotic song"

Isaac Hawkins Browne, the elder, Poems Upon Various Subjects, Latin and English, edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne, the younger
Thomas Gray, Poems by Mr Gray, including "The Fatal Sisters", "The Descent of Odin", "The Triumphs of Owen" but not "A Long Story"
Richard Jago, Labour and Genius; or, The Mill-Stream, and the Cascade
Lady Mary Montagu, Poetical Works
Henry James Pye, Elegies on Different Occasions, published anonymously
Alexander Ross, The Fortunate Sheperdess
Christopher Smart, The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
William Wilkie, ''Fables''

Ephraim Luzzato, Ele Bene Hane'urim, Hebrew poetry published in London in an edition of 100 copies; more than 50 poems, mostly sonnets in quantitative-syllabic meters; many subsequent editions and influential among Hebrew poets of the Haskalah movement in the 19th century.

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