Verses upon the Burning of our House

Verses upon the Burning of our House (full title: Here follow some verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666) is a poem by Anne Bradstreet. She wrote it to memorialize the traumatic loss of her home and most of her possessions.[1]

The poem has a couplet-based rhyme scheme.

References

  1. ^ Edwin Monroe Bacon. Literary pilgrimages in New England to the homes of famous makers of American literature and among their haunts and the scenes of their writings. Silver, Burdett & Company, 1902. Pages 24-27