Anne Bradstreet: ”Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666”

In this season of Thanksgiving, we remember those famous Pilgrims who dared to leave comfort, home, family and the safe structures of society to establish a new life in a new world. This month we celebrate and remember the courage, love and devotion, the strength and sacrifice that founded our country.

In this poem, Anne Bradstreet recounts the terror and loss of her home to fire and her complex reaction to that loss, recalling the words of Job.

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