Deliberately Craving the Wrath of God in Puritan Society

Elizabeth DoolittleFlagler College

St. Augustine, Florida

“That fearful sound of “Fire!” and “Fire!” /Let no man know is my desire.” (4-5)

“And to my God my heart did cry” (8)

Anne Bradstreet

“I blest His name that gave and

took.” (line 14)

“With glory richly furnished, /Stands permanent through this be fled. /It’s purchased and paid for too /By him who has enough to do.” (Lines 45-48)

Anne Bradstreet

“Adieu, Adieu, all’s vanity.” (line 36)

“My pleasant things in ashes lie, /And them behold no more shall I.” (line 27-8)

Anne Bradstreet

“The world no longer let me love.” (line

54)

“Fire!”, /Let no man know is my desire.” (line 5-6)

“pleasant things” (line 27)

“When by the ruins oft I past /My sorrowing eyes aside did cast,” (21-22)

Anne Bradstreet

“I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so ‘twas just. It was His own, it was not mine, Far be it that I should repine; He might of all justly bereft But yet sufficient for us left.” (lines 14-20)

Anne Bradstreet

“My pleasant things in ashes lie, /And them behold no more shall I.” (lines 27-8)

“Thou has a house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this be fled.” (lines 43-6)

Anne Bradstreet