Here follow several occasionall meditations.
I.
BY night when others soundly slept,
And had at once both ease and Rest,
My waking eyes were open kept,
And so to lye I found it best.4.
II.
I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
With tears I sought him earnestly;
He bow’d his ear down from Above,
In vain I did not seek or cry.7.
III.
My hungry Soul he fill’d with Good,
He in his Bottle putt my teares,
My smarting wounds washt in his blood,
And banisht thence my Doubts and feares.11.
IV.
What to my Saviour shall I give,
Who freely hath done this for me?
I’le serve him here whilst I shall live,
And Love him to Eternity.15.
Full Colophon Information
Genre: Poetry
Subjects: Religion
Period: 1650-1700
Location: New England
Format: verse
This text was first published in 1650 in The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America.
This electronic text was prepared from and proofed against The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse. Edited by John Harvard Ellis. (Charlestown: A. E. Cutter, 1867). All preliminaries and notes have been omitted except those for which the author is responsible and those in which editorial notes indicate significant textual variations. All editorial notes have been omitted except for those which indicate significant textual variations. Line and paragraph numbers contained in the source text have been retained. In cases where the source text displays no numbers, numbers are automatically generated. In the header, personal names have been regularized according to the Library of Congress authority files as "Last Name, First Name" for the REG attribute and "First Name Last Name" for the element value. Names have not been regularized in the body of the text.