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
spring resurrection emblems
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
death spring lying
The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
spring adversity winter
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
life spring adversity
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
adversity prosperity spring taste
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
death strong fate
And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.
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.
hands laborers hard
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
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.
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.
gold east riches
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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,
hands tongue fit
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,
art brain weak
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.