Homage to Mistress Bradstreet Quotes

“Pioneering is not feeling well,
not Indians, beasts.
Not all their riddling can forestall
one leaving. Sam, your uncle has had to
go fróm us to live with God. ‘Then Aunt went too?’
Dear, she does wait still.
Stricken: ‘Oh. Then he takes us one by one.”
― John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

“and if, 0 my love, my heart is breaking, please
neglect my cries and I will spare you.”
― John Berryman, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet