Here you will find the Poem As spring the winter doth succeed of poet Anne Bradstreet
May 13, 1657. As spring the winter doth succeed, And leaues the naked Trees doe dresse, The earth all black is cloth'd in green; At svn-shine each their joy expresse. My Svns returned with healing wings. My Soul and Body doth rejoice; My heart exvlts, and praises sings To him that heard my wailing Voice. My winters past, my stormes are gone, And former clowdes seem now all fled; But, if they mvst eclipse again, I'le rvn where I was succoured. I haue a shelter from the storm, A shadow from the fainting heat; I haue accesse vnto his Throne, Who is a God so wondrous great. O hast thou made my Pilgrimage Thvs pleasant, fair, and good; Bless'd me in Youth and elder Age, My Baca made a springing flood? I studiovs am what I shall doe, To show my Duty with delight; All I can giue is but thine own, And at the most a simple mite.
