Ann Eliza Bleecker

Ann Eliza Bleecker (October 1752 – November 23, 1783) was an American poet and correspondent who experienced the American Revolution first-hand and recorded it.

Quotes

Lines to Grief

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• Come Grief, and sing a solemn dirge
  Beneath this midnight shade;
  From central darkness now emerge,
  And tread the lonely glade.

• Though such the darkness of my soul,
  Not such the calmness there;
  But waves of guilt tumultuous roll
  'Midst billows of despair.

A Complaint

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• Tell me thou all pervading mind,
  When I this life forsake,
  Must ev'ry tender tie unbind,
  Each sweet connection break?

• How shall I leave thee, oh! my love,
  And blooming progeny?
  If I without thee mount above,
  'Twill be no heav'n to me.

• There give thy griefs full vent to flow
  O'er the unconscious dead,
  With no spectator to thy woe
  But my attendant shade.

External links

• Women's Early American Historical Narratives from Google Books giving an excerpt from Bleeker's Maria Kittle novel.
• Ann Elizabeth Bleecker page at Words of Women - site contains several poems by Bleecker which all are in the Public Domain.