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
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.
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.
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
memorable chance stolen
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
kings men dust
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust; But he whose name is graved in the white stone Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.
christian adversity states
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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.
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.
may
That when we live no more, We may live ever
greek
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
age youth spending
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
heaven world treasure
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
men too-late hook
Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.