Poems

Epitaphs Her Mother’s Epitaph Here lies A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor, Whom oft […]

For Deliverance from a feaver. When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd, And Paines within and out, When in my flesh no part was sovnd, Then didst […]

For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague, June, 1661. When feares and sorrowes me besett, Then did’st thou rid me out; When […]

Here Follow Several Occasional Meditations By night when others soundly slept, And had at once both case and rest, My waking eyes were open kept And […]

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH Proem. Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to […]

In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, who deceased June 20, 1699, bei With troubled heart and trembling hand I write. The heavens have changed […]

In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband his Absence O Lord, Thou hear’st my daily moan And see’st my dropping tears. My troubles all are […]

In Reference to Her Children I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up with […]

In Thankful Remembrance for My Dear Husband’s Safe Arrival What shall I render to Thy name Or how Thy praises speak? My thanks how shall I […]

In thankfull acknowledgment for the letters I received from my husband ovt of En O thou that hear’st the Prayers of Thine, And ‘mongst them hast […]