Ann Eliza Bleecker
Ann Eliza Bleecker (October 1752 – November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent who experienced the American Revolution first-hand and recorded it.
Quotes
[edit]Lines to Grief
[edit]- Come Grief, and sing a solemn dirge
Beneath this midnight shade;
From central darkness now emerge,
And tread the lonely glade.
- Though such the darkness of my soul,
Not such the calmness there;
But waves of guilt tumultuous roll
'Midst billows of despair.
A Complaint
[edit]- Tell me thou all pervading mind,
When I this life forsake,
Must ev'ry tender tie unbind,
Each sweet connection break?
- How shall I leave thee, oh! my love,
And blooming progeny?
If I without thee mount above,
'Twill be no heav'n to me.
- There give thy griefs full vent to flow
O'er the unconscious dead,
With no spectator to thy woe
But my attendant shade.
External links
[edit]
- Women's Early American Historical Narratives from Google Books giving an excerpt from Bleeker's Maria Kittle novel.
- Ann Elizabeth Bleecker page at Words of Women - site contains several poems by Bleecker which all are in the Public Domain.