Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 March 1612
CountryUnited States of America
ignorant age youth
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
christian adversity states
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
hands female tongue
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
long wickedness littles
Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
hands laborers hard
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
beauty wrinkles tree
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
spring resurrection emblems
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
fall pride gay
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.
kings war mean
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,
gold east riches
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
heaven world treasure
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
anger wind fire
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
famous-love love-is rivers
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
authority bruise fitter heavy wisdom
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.