This author commanded "Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone" in one poem, and another of this author's poems compares a contemporary leader to Semiramis, Zenobia, and Cleopatra. Ecclesiastes inspired this author to write "The Vanity of All Worldly Things," and this author described being "waken'd...with thund'ring noise" and the "fearful sound of 'fire'" in "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House." John Woodbridge secretly published the most famous collection of this author's poems, which included "The Author to Her Book" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband." For 10 points, name this colonial poet of The Tenth
This author commanded "Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone" in one poem, and another of this author's poems compares a contemporary leader to Semiramis, Zenobia, and Cleopatra. Ecclesiastes inspired this author to write "The Vanity of All Worldly Things," and this author described being "waken'd...with thund'ring noise" and the "fearful sound of 'fire'" in "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House." John Woodbridge secretly published the most famous collection of this author's poems, which included "The Author to Her Book" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband." For 10 points, name this colonial poet of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
This author commanded "Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone" in one poem, and another of this author's poems compares a contemporary leader to Semiramis, Zenobia, and Cleopatra.
Anne Bradstreet