Anne Bradstreet

When feares and sorrowes me besett,
Then did'st thou rid me out;
When heart did faint and spirits quail,
Thou comforts me about

Proem
Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in every clime, And so has vow'd, whilst there is world or time
So great's thy glory, and thine excellence, The s...

In my distress I sought the Lord When naught on earth could comfort give,
And when my soul these things abhorred,
Then,
Lord,

When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd,
And Paines within and out,
When in my flesh no part was sovnd,
Then didst thou rid me out

With troubled heart and trembling hand I write
The heavens have changed to sorrow my delight
How oft with dissappointment have I
When I on fading things my hopes have set

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By night when others soundly slept,
And had at once both case and rest,
My waking eyes were open kept And so to lie I found it best
I sought Him whom my soul did love,

By night when others soundly slept And hath at once both ease and Rest, My waking eyes were open kept And so to lie I found it best
I sought him whom my Soul did Love, With tears I sought him earnestly
He bow'd his ear down from Above

Worthy art Thou,
O Lord, of praise,
But ah
It's not in me

Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, begone,
The silent night's the fittest time for moan;
But stay this once, unto my suit give ear,
And tell my griefs in either Hemisphere: (And if the whirling of thy wheels do n't drown'd The ...

Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride, Were gilded o're by his rich golden head
Their leaves and fruits seem'd painted but was true Of green, of red, of...

Her Mother's
Here liesA worthy matron of unspotted life,
A loving mother and obedient wife,
A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor,