English Poetry. Anne Bradstreet. To Her Father with Some Verses. Анна Брэдстрит.

Anne Bradstreet (Анна Брэдстрит)

To Her Father with Some Verses

Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, 
If worth in me or ought I do appear, 
Who can of right better demand the same 
Than may your worthy self from whom it came? 
The principal might yield a greater sum, 
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb; 
My stock’s so small I know not how to pay, 
My bond remains in force unto this day; 
Yet for part payment take this simple mite, 
Where nothing’s to be had, kings loose their right. 
Such is my debt I may not say forgive, 
But as I can, I’ll pay it while I live; 
Such is my bond, none can discharge but I, 
Yet paying is not paid until I die.

Anne Bradstreet’s other poems:

1. In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth
2. My Thankfull Heart with Glorying Tongue
3. To My Dear Children
4. For the Restoration of My Dear Husband from a Burning Ague, June, 1661
5. Upon My Dear and Loving Husband his Going into England Jan. 16

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