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xiv CONTENTS. Do Not Blame Me 508 Midnight, and Daybreak 509 The Church 510 E. JUSTINE BAYARD Biographical Sketch 511 A Funeral Chant for the Old Year 511 Music of Nature 513 Sonnet 515 Song 515 Error 516 Stanzas 516 MARION H. RAND Biographical Sketch 519 Sympathy 519 Infancy 520 ANGELINA S. MUMFORD Biographical Sketch 522 Cheerful Content 522 To a Lady 524 HELEN W. IRVING Biographical Sketch 526 Love and Fame 526 MARGARET JUNKIN Biographical Sketch 528 Galileo before the Inquisition 528 MARY J. REED Biographical Sketch 530 Weary 530 Little Children 531 "EDITH MAY" Biographical Sketch 533 October Twilight 533 The Coloring of Happiness 535 Eolie 536 MARY L. LAWSON Biographical Sketch 538 A Daughter's Memory 538 The Haunted Heart 540 ELIZA L. SPROAT Biographical Sketch 542 Sunset after Rain. 543 The Prisoner's Child 544 The Mother and Child 545 CATHERINE A. DUBOSE Biographical Sketch 547 Wachulla 548 ALICE AND PHEBE CAREY Biographical Sketch 552 ALICE The Broken Household 552 The True Man 553 Visions of Light 555 PHEBE The Christian Woman 556 Light in Darkness 558 The Death Scene 559 FEMALE POETS OF AMERICA. ANNE BRADSTREET. ANNE BRADSTREET, wife of Simon Bradstreet, governor of Massachusetts colony, and daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, was born at Northampton, England, in the year 1612. She was married at the age of sixteen, and the following year came with her husband to this country. She died September 16th, 1672. Although "merrie old Englande" claims her birth-place, the honour of her poetical fame belongs to America; for we find her recorded as the earliest poet of New England, where she gained much celebrity by the spirit and power of her writings. Cotton Mather is warm in her praise, and declares that "her poems, divers times printed, have afforded a grateful entertainment unto the ingenious, and a monument for her memory beyond the stateliest marbles." The learned and excellent John Norton, of Ipswich, calls her "the mirror of her age, and the glory of her sex." That she must have been also a bright example to women, worthy of a close imitation, we cannot doubt; for we learned from the preface to the second edition of her poems, that she was as much loved for her gentleness, discretion, and domestic diligence, as she was admired for her genius, wit, and love of learning. The volume is pronounced to be "the work of a woman, honoured and esteemed where she lives, for her gracious demeanour, her eminent (15)
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