Milcah Martha Moore

Milcah Martha Moore (1740–1829) was an 18th-century American Quaker poet, the creator of a manuscript commonplace book featuring the work of women writers of her circle and compiler of a printed book of prose and poetry.

Quotes

• Since the men from a party or fear of a frown,
  Are kept by a sugar-plum quietly down,
  Supinely asleep—and depriv'd of their sight,
  Are stipp'd of their freedom, and robb'd of their right;
  If the sons, so degenerate! the blessings despise,
  Let the Daughters of Liberty nobly arise;
  And though we've no voice but a negative here,
  The use of the taxables, let us forbear:—
  (Then merchants import till your stores are all full,
  May the buyers be few, and your traffic be dull!)
  Stand firmly resolv'd, and bid Grenville to see,
  That rather than freedom we part with our tea.
  • "The Female Patriots, Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768" (ed. Patti Cowell, 1981)
  • From the text published in the Pennsylvania Chronicle, no. 3 (December 18–25, 1769), p. 392. An alternative text, based on the MS. of Moore's commonplace book, appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, ser. 3, no. 34 (April, 1977), pp. 307–8

See also

• Hannah Griffitts

External links

• Patti Cowell (ed.) Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1650–1775: An Anthology (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1981), p. 275