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Poems and Meditations

Anne Bradstreet

Contents

Prologue
The Author To Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
In Reference to her Children
To my Dear and Loving Husband
To Her Father with Some Verses
By Night when Others Soundly Slept
The Flesh and the Spirit
Verses upon the Burning of our House
The Vanity of All Worldly Things
Another
Another II
Upon a Fit of Sickness
Upon Some Distemper of Body
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
Her Mother's Epitaph
Her Father's Epitaph
[Deliverance] From Another Sore Fit
Deliverance from a Fit of Fainting
Meditations When My Soul hath been Refreshed with the Consolations which the World Knows Not
Meditation July 8th., 1656
Meditation [no date]
Meditation May 13, 1657
Meditation May 11, 1661
Upon My Dear and Loving Husband his Going into England Jan. 16, 1661
In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband his Absence
In Thankful Remembrance for My Dear Husband's Safe Arrival Sept 3, 1662
Contemplations
A Dialogue between Old England and New
The Four Ages of Man
The Four Elements
 Prologue
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