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Seventeenth-century American poetry / edited with an introd., notes, and comments by Harrison T. Meserole.

Meserole, Harrison T. (Author). Cotton, John, 1584-1652 (Added Author). Wolcott, Roger, 1679-1767 (Added Author). Cotton, John, 1640-1699 (Added Author). Lynde, Benjamin, 1666-1745 (Added Author). Danforth, Samuel, 1666-1727 (Added Author). Knight, Sarah Kemble, 1666-1727 (Added Author). Williams, John, 1664-1729 (Added Author). Rawson, Grindal, 1659-1715 (Added Author). Henchman, Richard,-1672 (Added Author). Walter, Nehemiah, 1663-1750 (Added Author). Norton, John,approximately 1651-1716 (Added Author). Drake, Francis, Sir,-1637. (Added Author). Harris, Benjamin,-1716? (Added Author). Alsop, George, 1638- (Added Author). Wiswell, Ichabod, 1637-1700 (Added Author). Selyns, Henricus, 1636-1701 (Added Author). S. B. (Samuel Bradstreet),-1682 (Added Author). James, John, 1657-1657?-1729 (Added Author). Chamberlain, Richard, 1935- (Added Author). Rogers, John, 1630-1684 (Added Author). Danforth, Samuel, 1626-1674 (Added Author). Mitchel, Jonathan, 1624-1668 (Added Author). Woodbridge, Benjamin, 1622-1684 (Added Author). Thatcher, Thomas. (Added Author). Josselyn, John,active 1630-1675 (Added Author). Wood, William. (Added Author). Tillam, Thomas (Added Author). Gorton, Samuel, 1592-1592 or 1593-1677 (Added Author). Bradford, William, 1590-1657 (Added Author). Wilson, John, 1588-1667 (Added Author). Smith, John, 1580-1631 (Added Author). Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646 (Added Author). Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652 (Added Author). Dudley, Thomas, 1576-1653 (Added Author). Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747 (Added Author). Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 (Added Author). Danforth, John, 1660-1730 (Added Author). Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730 (Added Author). Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719 (Added Author). Pain, Philip,-1668? (Added Author). Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717 (Added Author). Steere, Richard, 1643-1721 (Added Author). Tompson, Benjamin, 1642-1714 (Added Author). Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681 (Added Author). Saffin, John, 1632-1710 (Added Author). Fiske, John, 1601-1677 (Added Author). Williams, Roger, 1604-1604?-1683 (Added Author). Johnson, Edward, 1599-1599?-1672 (Added Author). Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729 (Added Author). Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705 (Added Author). Bradstreet, Anne, 1612-1612?-1672 (Added Author).

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  • Physical Description: xxxvi, 541 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: [First edition].
  • Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1968.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. [517]-522.
Formatted Contents Note:
The prologue / Anne Bradstreet -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- Contemplations / Anne Bradstreet -- As weary pilgrim, now at rest / Anne Bradstreet -- The flesh and the spirit / Anne Bradstreet -- The four seasons of the year / Anne Bradstreet -- The vanity of all worldly things / Anne Bradstreet -- In memory of my dear grand-child Elizabeth Bradstreet / Anne Bradstreet -- To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet -- A letter to her husband, absent upon publick employment / Anne Bradstreet -- Another / Anne Bradstreet -- On my dear grand-child Simon Bradstreet / Anne Bradstreet -- Here followes some verses upon the burning of our house / Anne Bradstreet -- God's controversy with New England / Michael Wigglesworth -- A proyer unto Christ the Judge of the World / Michael Wigglesworth -- The day of doom / Michael Wigglesworth -- A song of emptiness to fill up the empty pages following / Michael Wigglesworth -- Meditation 1.1 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 1.8 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 1.29 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 1.32 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 1.39 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 2.1 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 2.2 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 2.3 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 2.4 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 2.56 / Edward Taylor -- Meditation 2.150 / Edward Taylor -- Gods determinations: the preface / Edward Taylor -- The forwardness of the elect in the work of conversation / Edward Taylor -- The joy of church fellowship rightly attended / Edward Taylor -- Upon a spider catching a fly / Edward Taylor -- Huswifery / Edward Taylor -- The ebb and flow / Edward Taylor -- The Reverend Mr. Higgingson / Edward Johnson -- Mr. Eliot Pastor ... At Roxbury / Edward Johnson -- A few lines in remembrance of Thomas Hooker / Edward Johnson -- Mr. Roger Harlackenden / Edward Johnson -- Mr. Thomas Shepheard / Edward Johnson -- Onely the reverend grave and godly Mr. Buckly remains / Edward Johnson -- Oh king of saints / Edward Johnson -- Of the reasons moving this people to transplant themselves / Edward Johnson -- Of the transportation of people / Edward Johnson -- Of the arrivall of our English nation / Edward Johnson -- A briefe description of the land / Edward Johnson -- Of their building, planting and giving out of lands / Edward Johnson -- To populate this howling desart land / Edward Johnson -- What creature man / Edward Johnson -- Yet unto God this people feeling sayes / Edward Johnson -- Church-covenant band brought in with liberty / Edward Johnson -- The courteous pagan shall condemne / Roger Williams -- Course bread and water's most their fare / Roger Williams -- God gives them sleep / Roger Williams -- The pagans wild confesse the bonds / Roger Williams -- How busie are the sonnes of men / Roger Williams -- Boast not proud E [n] glish] / Roger Williams -- Mans restlesse soule hath restlesse eyes and ears / Roger Williams -- The see Gods wonders that are call's / Roger Williams -- What Habacuck once spake / Roger Williams -- Adulteries, murthers, robberies, thefts / Roger Williams -- The Indians prize not English gold / Roger Williams -- I have heard ingenuous Indians say / Roger Williams -- Our English gamesters scorne to stake / Roger Williams -- The ndians count of men as dogs / Roger Williams -- Truth is a native, naked beauty / Roger Williams -- One step twix's me and death / Roger Williams -- Whe Indians heare that some there are / Roger Williams -- Upon the much-to be lamented desease of ... John Cotton / John Fiske -- Upon the decease of Mris Anne Griffin / John Fiske -- An acrostick on Mrs. Elizabeth Hull / John Saffin -- An acrostick on Mrs. Winifret Griffin / John Saffin -- Consideratus considerandus / John Saffin -- A lamentation on my dear son Simon / John Saffin -- Sweetly my dearest I left thee asleep / John Saffin -- A brief elegie on my dear son John / John Saffin -- An elegie on ... John Hull / John Saffin -- One presenting a rare book to Madame Hull Senr: his vallintine / John Saffin -- To his Excellency Joseph Dudley / John Saffin -- March 4th anno 1698: a charracteristicall satyre / John Saffin -- Or thus: a satyretericall charracter of a proud upstart / John Saffin -- To the reader / Urian Oakes -- An elegie upon ... Mr. Thomas Shepard / Urian Oakes -- Edmund Davie 1682 / Benjamin Tompson -- To my honoured patron Humphery Davie / Benjamin Tompson -- New Englands crisis / Benjamin Tompson -- On a fortification at Boston begun by women / Benjamin Tompson -- Marlburyes fate / Benjamin Tompson -- The town called providence its fate / Benjamin Tompson -- Seaconk plain engagement / Benjamin Tompson -- Seaconk or Rehoboths fate / Benjamin Tompson -- Chelmsfords fate / Benjamin Tompson -- A supplement / Benjamin Tompson -- A monumental memorial of marine mercy / Richard Steere -- Earth felicities, heavens allowances / Richard Steere -- On a sea-storm nigh the coast / Richard Steere -- A poem, upon the caelestial embassy / Richard Steere -- A praefatory poen to ... Christianus per Ignem / Nicholas Noyes -- The Rev. Nicholas Noyes to the Rev. Cotton Mather / Nicholas Noyes -- A prefatory poem on ... Magnalia Christi Americana / Nicholas Noyes -- To my worthy friend, Mr. James Bayley / Nicholas Noyes -- A consolatory poem dedicated unto Mr. Cotton Mather / Nicholas Noyes -- The Porch / Philip Pain -- Meditations for July 19, 1666 / Philip Pain -- Meditations for July 25, 1666 / Philip Pain -- Meditations for July 26, 1666 / Philip Pain -- Meditations for August 1, 1666 / Philip Pain -- When I solidly do ponder / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- On his garden book / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- If any be pleased to walk into my poor garden / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Most weeds, whilst young / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- If thou wouldest roses scent / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- When one or other rambles / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- As often as some where before my feet / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Thy garden, orchard, fields / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Extract the quint-essence / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- To God alone, the only donour / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Delight in books / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- I have a pretty little flow'r/ Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Learn, lads and lasses / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Epigrams / Francis Daniel Pastorius -- Wednesday, January 1, 1701 / Samuel Sewall -- The humble springs of stately Sandwich Beach / Samuel Sewall -- Upon the springs / Samuel Sewall -- This morning Tom Child, the painter, died / Samuel Sewall -- To be engraven on a dial / Samuel Sewall -- To ... Jno. Sparhawk on the birth of his son / Samuel Sewall -- On my Lord Bacon / John Danforth -- Two vast enjoyments commemorated / John Danforth -- The mercies of the year, commemorated / John Danforth -- Profit and loss / John Danforth -- A few lines to fill up a vacant page / John Danforth -- A poem. upon ... Mrs. Anne Eliot / John Danforth -- Vigilantius / Cotton Mather -- Epitaph [ on Shubael Dummer] / Cotton Mather -- Go then, my dove, but now no longer mine / Cotton Mather -- O glorious Christ of God; I live / Cotton Mather -- A quarrel with fortune / Benjamin Colman -- To Philomela / Benjamin Colman -- To Urania / Benjamin Colman -- Another to Urania / Benjamin Colman -- A poem on Elijahs translation / Benjamin Colman -- A hymn of praise, on a recovery from sickness / Benjamin Colman -- Psalme 1 / The Bay Psalm Book -- Psalme 19 / The Bay Psalm Book -- Psalme 103 / The Bay Psalm Book -- Psalme 107 / The Bay Psalm Book -- Verses found in his pocket after his death / Thomas Dudley -- Mercury shew'd Apollo, Bartas book / Nathaniel Ward -- The world's a well strung fidle / Nathaniel Ward -- Poetry's a gift wherein but few excell / Nathaniel Ward -- Mr. Ward of anagrams thus / Nathaniel Ward -- The authors prologue / Thomas Morton -- New Canaans genius, epilogus / Thomas Morton -- Epitaph / Thomas Morton -- Carmen Elegiacum / Thomas Morton -- The poem [rise Oedipeus] / Thomas Morton -- The songe / Thomas Morton -- The poem [ I sing th' adventures] / Thomas Morton -- The poem [what ails Pigmalion] / Thomas Morton -- The sea marke / Captain John Smith -- John Smith of his friend Master John Taylor and his armado / Captain John Smith -- In the due honor of the author Master Robert Norton, and his worke / Captain John Smith -- To my reverend dear brother, M. Samuel Stone / John Cotton -- In Saram / John Cotton -- A thankful acknowledgment of God's providence / John Cotton -- A copy of verses ... on the sudden death of Mr. Joseph Claudius Gilbert / John Wilson -- Claudius Gilbert / John Wilson -- A word to New England / William Bradford -- Of boston in New England / William Bradford -- Epitaphium Meum / William Bradford -- The serpent with a voyce so slie and fine / Samuel Gorton -- R. B. / Samuel Gorton -- Uppon the first sight of New England / Thomas Tillam --
Trees both in the hills and plaines, in plenty be / William Wood -- The kingly Lyon, and the strong aarm'd Beare / William Wood -- The princely eagle, and the soaring hawke / William Wood -- The king of waters, the sea shouldering whale / William Wood -- The poem upon the Indian squa / John Josselyn -- And the bitter storm augments; the wild winds wage / John Josselyn -- Description of a New England spring / John Josselyn -- A love letter / Thomas Thatcher -- Upon the author Anne Bradstreet; by a known friend / Benjamin Woodbridge -- Upon the tomb of the most Reverend Mr. John Cotton / Benjamin Woodbridge -- On the following work, The day of doom, and its author / Jonathan Mithchell -- Almanac verse / Samuel Danforth I -- Awake yee westerne nymphs, arise and sing / Samuel Danforth I -- Upon Mrs. Anne Bradstreet her poems / John Rogers -- To the much honoured R.F. Esq. / Richard Chamberlain -- Of John Bunyans life &c / John James -- On ... John Haynes / John James -- Almanack verse .. 1657 / Samuel Bradstreet -- On mercenary and unjust bailiffs / Henricus Selyns -- Of scolding wives and the third day ague / Henricus Selyns -- Upon the bankruptcy of a physician / Henricus Selyns -- Reasons for and againsst marrying widows / Henricus Selyns -- On maids and cats / Henricus Selyns -- Nuptial song / Henricus Selyns -- Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant / Henricus Selyns -- A judicious observation of that dreadful comet / Ichabod Wiswall -- The author to his book / George Alsop -- Could'st thou, o earth, live thus obscure / George Alsop -- Tis said the Gods / George Alsop -- Be just / George Alsop -- Trafique is earth's great Atlas / George Alsop -- Heavens bright lamp / George Alsop -- Poor vaunting earth / George Alsop -- To my cosen Mris. Ellinor Evins / George Alsop -- Lines on a purple cap / George Alsop -- God save the King / Benjamin Harris -- Of the French King's nativity / Benjamin Harris -- An account of the cruelty of the Papists / Benjamin Harris -- To the memory of the learned and reverend, Mr. Jonathan Mitchell / Francis Drake -- An elegiack verse on ... Mr. Elijah Corlet / John Norton II -- In consort to Wednesday, Jan. 1st. 1701 / Richard Henchman -- Vox oppressi to the Lady Phipps / Richard Henchman -- Upon the death of ... Mr. Jno Saffin Junr / Grindall Rawson -- To the learned and reverend Mr. Cotton Mather, on his excellent Magnalia / Grindall Rawson -- Some contemplations / John Williams -- Thoughts on the sight of the moon / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Resentments composed because of the clamor of town topers / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Warning to travailers / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Thoughts on pausing at a cottage / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Pleasent delusion / Sarah Kemble Knight -- Ad Librum / Samuel Danforth II -- An elegy in memory of Major Thomas Leonard Esq. / Samuel Danforth II -- Lines descriptive of Thomson's Island / Benjamin Lynde -- Bacons epitaph / John Cotton of Queen's Creek -- Upon the death of G: B / John Cotton of Queen's Creek -- Psalm LXIV. 6, the heart is deep / Roger Wolcott -- Matthew X. 28 / Roger Wolcott -- An old song -- Thomas Dudley ah! old must dye -- Respendent studs of heaven's frame -- The whore that rides in us abides -- Time tryeth truth -- On how the cobler -- Almanac verse --
Subject: American poetry > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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