Anne Bradstreet Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Ignorant, Age, Youth

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, Youth, Middle

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Lying, Spring

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.209, Harvard University Press

• My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Age, My Time, Old Age

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• 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

  Anne Bradstreet

  Beauty, Wrinkles, Tree

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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