Name: Vanity
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) was an English-born Puritan poet who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and became the first published poet of colonial America with her 1650 collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. She is best known for her personal and religious verse that reflected domestic life, faith, and the challenges of early New England.

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Vanity

A reflection on sins common to our age

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Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) was an English-born Puritan poet who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and became the first published poet of colonial America with her 1650 collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. She is best known for her personal and religious verse that reflected domestic life, faith, and the challenges of early New England.

"More vain than all, that's but to grasp the wind. The sensual senses for a time they pleasure, Meanwhile the conscience rage, who shall appease? What isn't in beauty? No that's but a snare,"
— Anne Bradstreet, "The Vanity of All Worldly Things"

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"The Vanity of All Worldly Things" by Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672)

Vanity — Bëryth