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  • In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old

    Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content,

    Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,

    Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent,

    Then ta'en away unto eternity.

    Blest babe why should I once bewail thy fate,

    Or sigh the days so soon were terminate;

    Sith thou art settled in an everlasting...

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