The speaker of a poem by this author describes how “My chilled limbs now nummed lye forlorn” because the addressee’s absence caused “My Sun” to go “so far in’s Zodiack.” In a poem by this author, the speaker “wash’d thy face, but more defects I saw,” and personifies the title object as a “rambling brat.” In a different poem, this poet wrote that the addressee’s love is prized more than “all the riches that the East doth hold.” This author described a collection published by John Woodbridge without this author’s permission as an “ill form’d offspring of my feeble brain.” This poet declared “If ever two were one, then surely we” in “To My Dear and Loving Husband.” For 10 points, name this colonial-era poet of “The Author to Her Book,” which appears in her collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. ■END■
ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet [or Anne Dudley] (The first line is from “A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick Employment.”)
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