Anne Bradstreet

Anna Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England on March 20, 1612 and passed away on 16 September, 1672 at age 60 years old. Anne was a daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yoke. Her family helped her in education, she was taught many things such as history, languages, and literature. Anne got married at age 16 with Simon Bradstreet. Both of them and also Anne’s parents immigrated ton America in 1630. At first, they stayed at Salem, Massachusetts then moved to several places. In 1632, Anne gave birth to Samuel, her first child. She had 8 kids with Simon.

Anne’s education helped her a lot to write about many things, such as history, medicine, and politics. Her own personal library had more than 800 books but most of them were gone because her house got burned down in a fire in 1666. Her poetry called “The Tenth Muse Late Sprung Up in America, by a Gentlewoman from Those Parts” was published in London and because of this poetry made her the first woman poet published in England and also America.

We May Live Together

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.

If ever wife was happy in a man,

Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East doth hold.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.

Thy love is such I can no way repay.

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.

Then while we live, in love let's so persever

That when we live no more, we may live ever.

Anne Bradstreet