Excerpt from The Poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672): Together With Her Prose Remains; With an Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton For my dear son Simon Bradstreet Meditations divine and moral To my dear children By night, when others soundly slept For deliverance from a fever From another sore fit. Deliverance from a fit of fainting Meditations when my soul hath been refreshed Upon my son Samuel his going for England. For the restoration of my dear husband Upon my daughter Hannah Wiggin On my son's return out of England Upon my husband his going into England In my solitary hours For the letters I received from my husband For my husband's safe arrival In silent night, when rest I took. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.