Childhood (Anne Bradstreet Poems)
Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow,Whose mean beginning, blushing ...
Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow,Whose mean beginning, blushing ...
Dear Sir of late delighted with the sightOf your four Sisters cloth'd in black and white,Of fairer Dames the Sun, ...
Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, begone, The silent night's the fittest time for moan; But stay this once, ...
Bles't bee thy Name, who did'st restoreTo health my Daughter dearWhen death did seem ev'n to approach,And life was ended ...
As he said vanity, so vain say I, Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky; Where is the man can ...
Twice ten years old not fully told since nature gave me breath, My race is run, my thread spun, lo, ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...
Her Mother's Epitaph Here lies A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone, The silent night's the fittest time for moan; But stay this ...
As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer, Scuds through the woods and fern with hark'ning ear, Perplext, in every ...
Worthy art Thou, O Lord, of praise, But ah! It's not in me. My sinking heart I pray Thee raise ...
In my distress I sought the Lord When naught on earth could comfort give, And when my soul these things ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...
Absent upon Public Employment My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more, My joy, my magazine, of earthly ...
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