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• The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Resurrection, Emblems

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.279, Harvard University Press

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• 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

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• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Love Is, Men

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Strong, Fate

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Heaven, World, Treasure

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Fall, Gay, Pride

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• I happy am, if well with you.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Happiness, Wells, Ifs

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

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• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Iron, Grace

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• Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love, Flesh, Bones

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• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, Men, Dust

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.381

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• 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

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• Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Art, Brain, Weak

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

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• 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.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Mean, Eye, Poverty

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Wife, Dear Love

  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" l. 1 (1678)

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• A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Christian, Adversity, States

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Lying, Men

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.376

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• To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Kings, War, Mean

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• 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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