Flesh and the Spirit, The (Anne Bradstreet Poems)
In secret place where once I stoodClose by the Banks of Lacrim flood,I heard two sisters reason onThings that are ...
In secret place where once I stoodClose by the Banks of Lacrim flood,I heard two sisters reason onThings that are ...
Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side remain,Till snatcht from thence by friends, less ...
Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow,Whose mean beginning, blushing ...
In silent night when rest I took, For sorrow near I did not look, I waken'd ...
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, ...
To finish what's begun, was my intent,My thoughts and my endeavours thereto bent;Essays I many made but still gave out,The ...
Thou mighty God of Sea and Land,I here resigne into thy handThe Son of Prayers, of vowes, of teares,The child ...
No sooner come, but gone, and fal'n asleep,Acquaintance short, yet parting caus'd us weep,Three flours, two searcely blown, the last ...
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 ...
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, If worth in me or ought I do appear, Who can of right ...
Twice ten years old not fully told since nature gave me breath, My race is run, my thread spun, lo, ...
O thou Most High who rulest all And hear'st the prayers of thine, O hearken, Lord, unto my suit And ...
What shall I render to Thy name Or how Thy praises speak? My thanks how shall I testify? O Lord, ...
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
Lo, now four other act upon the stage, Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age: The first son unto ...
Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Her Mother's Epitaph Here lies A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, ...
By night when others soundly slept, And had at once both case and rest, My waking eyes were open kept ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
O Lord, Thou hear'st my daily moan And see'st my dropping tears. My troubles all are Thee before, My longings ...
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 ...
All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joys attend; No ties so strong, no friends ...
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 ...
Absent upon Public Employment My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more, My joy, my magazine, of earthly ...
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