THE

FEMALE POETS

OF

AMERICA.

BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD.

I AM OBNOXIOUS TO EACH CARPING TONGUE
THAT SAYS MY HAND A NEEDLE BETTER FITS;

A POET'S PEN ALL SCORN I THUS SHOULD WRONG,
FOR SUCH DESPITE THEY CAST ON FEMALE WITS.....
BUT SURE THE ANTIQUE GREEKS WERE FAR MORE MILD,
ELSE OF OUR SEX WHY FEIGNED THEY THOSE NINE,
AND POESY MADE CALLIOPE'S OWN CHILD?-

SO MONGST THE REST THEY PLACED THE ARTS DIVINE.
THE FOUR ELEMENTS: By Anne Bradstreet. Boston, 1640.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY AND HART, CHESNUT STREET.

MDCCCXLIX.

ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1848, BY CAREY & HART, IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED TO

MRS. JACOB LITTLE,

WHOSE KNOWLEDGE AND TASTE IN THE BEST LITERATURES, WILL GUIDE HER TO A JUST ESTIMATE OF ITS CONTENTS, AS ILLUSTRATIONS OF

THE GENIUS, CULTURE, AND CHARACTER OF HER COUNTRY WOMEN.