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.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. - Anne Bradstreet
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
- Anne Bradstreet
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above. - Anne Bradstreet
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection. - Anne Bradstreet
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent. - Anne Bradstreet
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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…
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. - Anne Bradstreet
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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
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 …
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