Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies

Poems by Anne Bradstreet

• A Dialogue between Old England and New
• A Letter to Her Husband
• An Apology
• Another (As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer)
• Another (Phoebus make haste, the day’s too long, be gone)
• “As Spring the Winter Doth Succeed”
• “As Weary Pilgrim, Now at Rest”
• Before the Birth of One of Her Children
• “By Night when Others Soundly Slept”
• Contemplations
• Deliverance from a Fit of Fainting
• Deliverance from Another Sore Fit
• Epitaphs
• For Deliverance from a Feaver
• For the Restoration of My Dear Husband from a Burning Ague, June, 1661
• In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
• In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband His Absence
• In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659
• In Thankful Remembrance for My Dear Husband’s Safe Arrival
• Meditations Divine and Moral
• “My Thankfull Heart with Glorying Tongue”
• Of the Four Humours in Mans Constitution
• Prologue
• The Author to Her Book
• The Flesh and the Spirit
• The Four Ages of Man
• The Four Seasons of the Year
• The Vanity of All Worldly Things
• To Her Father with Some Verses
• To Her Most Honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; These Humbly Presented
• To My Dear and Loving Husband
• To My Dear Children
• Upon a Fit of Sickness
• Upon My Dear and Loving Husband his Going into England Jan. 16
• Upon Some Distemper of Body
• Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666

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