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The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse

Bradstreet, Anne (1612?-1672)

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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES AND OCCASIONAL PIECES.

To my Dear Children.

Here follow severall occasionall meditations.

For Deliverance from a feaver.

ffrom another sore ffitt.

Deliverance from a fitt of ffainting.

[What God is like to him I serve]

[My soul, rejoice thou in thy God]

[As spring the winter doth succeed]

Vpon my Son Samuel his goeing for England, Novem. 6, 1657.

[My thankfull heart with glorying Tongue]

For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague, June, 1661.

Vpon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recouery from a dangerous feaver.

On my Sons Return out of England, July 17, 1661.

Vpon my dear and loving husband his goeing into England, Jan. 16, 1661.

In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence.

In thankfull acknowledgment for the letters I received from my husband ovt of England.

In thankfull Remembrance for my dear husbands safe Arrivall Sept. 3, 1662.

[In filent night when rest I took]

[As weary pilgrim, now at rest]

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[So Bartas like thy fine spun Poems been]

An Anagram.

Anna Bradestreate Deer neat An Bartas.

So Bartas like thy fine spun Poems been,
That Bartas name will prove an Epicene.

Another.

Anna Bradstreate Artes bred neat An.