If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

- Anne Bradstreet

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- Anne Bradstreet

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…

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

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 …

- Anne Bradstreet

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast…

- Anne Bradstreet