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As well as penning a touching poem about her husband, Bradstreet also wrote this poem, written before one of her children was born. Bradstreet addresses her husband (‘my Dear’), acknowledging that Death may soon walk with her and take her from this world.
- Anne Bradstreet – Interesting Literature
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Verses upon...
- Upon The Burning of Our House
In 1666, a great fire consumed much of the considerable...
- The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was the first person in America,...
- Anne Bradstreet – Interesting Literature
Bradstreet's earliest extant poem, "Upon a Fit of Sickness, Anno. 1632," written in Newtown when she was 19, outlines the traditional concerns of the Puritan—the brevity of life, the certainty of death, and the hope for salvation:
These four mourning poems written by Anne Bradstreet demonstrate the hardship of living in a time when the mortality rate was much higher than today.
Nov 6, 2013 · Here are two short poems she wrote after the death of her young grandchildren. In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old With troubled heart and trembling hand I write, The heavens have changed to sorrow my delight.
Collected here are four poems Puritan housewife Anne Bradstreet wrote in 1665 and 1669, mourning the deaths of four grandchildren and her daughter-in-law Mercy. Mercy
Feb 6, 2019 · At the end of the poem, Bradstreet finds “victory” in death through her faith, which is a bit more uplifting than the resignation at the outset. This shows that even though she was at her lowest point, she found comfort in the inevitability of death and God’s promise of salvation.
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children. By Anne Bradstreet. All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joyes attend; No ties so strong, no friends so dear and sweet, But with death’s parting blow is sure to meet. The sentence past is most irrevocable, A common thing, yet oh inevitable.
