Anne Bradstreet (1612–72) was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.
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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
—Anne Bradstreet
Topics: Youth
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
—Anne Bradstreet
Topics: Change, Adversity, Wealth, Difficulty, Winter, Spring
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