Anne Bradstreet, ‘In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth’.
Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie,
Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky
Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in every clime,
And so has vow’d, whilst there is world or time …
So begins this poem from the seventeenth-century poet Anne Bradstreet, the first person from the New World to have a book of poems published (although Bradstreet had been born in England, she had emigrated to America following her marriage). Bradstreet pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth I, the monarch during whose reign England first set up the colonies in the Americas a century earlier.
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Anne Bradstreet, ‘In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth’.
Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie,
Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky
Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in every clime,
And so has vow’d, whilst there is world or time …
So begins this poem from the seventeenth-century poet Anne Bradstreet, the first person from the New World to have a book of poems published (although Bradstreet had been born in England, she had emigrated to America following her marriage). Bradstreet pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth I, the monarch during whose reign England first set up the colonies in the Americas a century earlier.
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