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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
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