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 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.
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
authority bruise fitter heavy wisdom
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
brain brains feeble offspring thou
Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .