"This book by any yet unread, / I leave for you when I am dead, / That being gone, here you may find / What was your living mother's mind."

— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)


Work Title
Place of Publication
Charleston
Publisher
A.E. Cutter
Date
1867
Metaphor
"This book by any yet unread, / I leave for you when I am dead, / That being gone, here you may find / What was your living mother's mind."
Metaphor in Context
This book by any yet unread,
I leave for you when I am dead,
That being gone, here you may find
What was your living mother's mind.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Bradstreet, Anne, and John Harvard Ellis. The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse. Charleston: A.E. Cutter, 1867.
Date of Entry
11/04/2003
Date of Review
04/20/2007

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.