Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

Anne Bradstreet

What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Loue him to Eternity

Anne Bradstreet

Sweet words are like honey: a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;

Anne Bradstreet

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.

Anne Bradstreet

This book, by any yet unread,
I leave for you when I am dead,
That, being gone, here you may find
What was your living mother's mind.
Make use of what I leave in love,
And God shall bless you from above.

Anne Bradstreet

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

Anne Bradstreet

Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth did'st by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true
Who thee abroad expos'd to public view,
Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judge)
At thy return my blushing was not small,
My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

Born: March 20, 1612

Died: September 16, 1672 (aged 60)

Bio: Anne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature.

Known for:

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650)
Works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse
To my husband and other poems
Early New England Meditative Poetry
The poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet

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