If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Bradstreet was not responsible for her writing becoming public. Four years after the death of Anne in 1672 Simon Bradstreet married for a second time to a lady also named Anne (Gardiner). A very serious tone for the poem.

Anne Bradstreet (born Anne Dudley; c. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.