Anne Bradstreet

She is more likely to appear on the GRE than is Rowlandson.

• She was first published American woman writer.
• Her faith was exemplary, and so was her love for children and her husband.

Relevent poems include:
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children”
“Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”
“In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth”
“The Author To Her Book”

“In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet”

Farewell, dear babe, my heart's too much content,
Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,
Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent,
Then ta'en away unto eternity.
Blest babe, why should I once bewail thy fate,
Or sigh thy days so soon were terminate,
Sith thou art settled in an everlasting state.
By nature trees do rot when they are grown,
And plums and apples throughly ripe do fall,
And corn and grass are in their season mown,
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.