Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England.
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- Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England.
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- Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
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- Boston :: Printed by John Foster,
- 1678.
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Contents
- title page
- to the reader
- encomium
- To my dear Sister, the Author of these Poems.
- Ʋpon the Author; by a known Friend.
- encomium
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In praise of the Author, Mistris
Anne Bradstreet, Virtues true and lively Pattern, Wife of the WorshipfullSimon Bradstreet Esq - Upon the Author.
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Another to Mrs.
Anne Bradstreet, Author of this Poem. -
An Anagram.
Anna Bradestreate Deer neatAn Bartas. -
Another.
Anne Bradstreate Artes bred neatAn. - ƲPON Mrs. Anne Bradstreet Her Poems, &c.
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To her most Honoured Fa∣ther
Thomas Dudley Esq these humbly presented. - THE PROLOGUE.
- The Four Elements
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Of the four
Humours in Mans Constitution. - Of the four Ages of Man.
- The four Seasons of the Year.
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The four
Monarchyes, theAssyrian being the first, beginning underNimrod, 131. Years after the Flood, -
The Second
Monarchy, being thePersian, began underCyrus, Darius being his Uncle and Father-in-law reigned with him about two years. -
The
Third Monarchy, being theGrecian, beginning underAlexander the Great in the 112.Olympiad. -
The
Romane Monarchy, being the fourth and last, be∣ginningAnno Mundi, 3213. -
A Dialogue between Old
En∣gland and New; concerning their present Troubles,Anno, 164. -
An Elegie upon that Honou∣rable and renowned Knight
Sir Philip Sidney, who was untimely slain at the Siege ofZutphan, Anno, 1586. -
In honour of
Du Bartas, 1641. -
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth
OF HAPPY MEMORY. - Davids Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan. 2. Sam. 1.19.
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To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq Who deceased,
and of his Age,July 31. 1653. 77. -
An EPITAPH On my dear and ever honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, Who deceased
and of her age,Decemb. 27. 1643. 61 : - CONTEMPLATIONS.
- The Flesh and the Spirit.
- The Ʋanity of all worldly things.
- The Author to her Book.
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Several other Poems made by the Author upon Diverse Occasions, were found among her Papers after her Death, which she never
ednt should come to publick view, amongst which, these following (at the desire of s me friends that knew her well) are ins rted -
Upon a Fit of Sickness,
Anno. 1632. Atat s suae, 10. - Ʋpon some distemper of body
- To my Dear and loving Husband.
- A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment.
- Another.
- Another.
- To her Father with some verses.
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In reference to her Children,
23. June,16 6. -
In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet, who deceased August,
1605. being a year and half old. -
In memory of my dear grand child Anne Bradstreet. Who deceased
June 20. 1669. being three years and seven Moneths old. -
On my dear Grand-child
Simon Bradstreet, Who dyed on being but a moneth, and one day old.16. Novemb. 1669. -
To the memory of my dear Daughter in Law, Mrs. Mercy Bradstreet, who deceased
Sept. 6. 1669. in the28. year of her Age.
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Upon a Fit of Sickness,
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A Funeral Elogy, Ʋpon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the truely pious, peerless & matchless Gentlewoman Mrs. Anne Bradstreet, right
Panaretes, Mirror of Her Age, Glory of herwhose Heaven-born-Soul leaving its earthly Shrine, chose its native home, and was taken to its Rest, upon 16 th.Sept. 1672.