Contemplations (extract)

Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) · 1678

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The first poet of English America, and the first woman published in the colonies: five stanzas of her Contemplations on an autumn afternoon.

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Public domain. Text from Selections from American Poetry, with Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, edited by Margaret Sprague Carhart, Project Gutenberg ebook #3650. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.

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