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
men iron grace
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.
men wife dear-love
If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
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.
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.
death love-is men
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.
death lying men
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
love marriage men
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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.
spring resurrection emblems
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
mean eye would-be
He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.
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.