Contents * xi 398 In Honour of.. Queen Elizabeth 402 The Author to Her Book 402 To Her Father with Some Verses 403 The Flesh and the Spirit 406 Before the Birth of One of Her Children 406 To My Dear and Loving Husband 407 A Letter to Her Husband. Absent upon Public Employment 408 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet. Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and Half Old 408 On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November. 1669. being but a Month, and One Day Old 409 Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th. 1666 410 To My Dear Children 414 Michael Wigglesworth ( 1631-1705) 415 from The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth 419 A Song of Emptiness 423 The Bay Psalm Book (1640); The New England Primer ( 1683?) 425 from The Bay Psalm Book 425 from "The Preface" by John Cotton 427 Psalm 1 428 Psalm 6 429 Psalm 8 430 Psalm 19 431 Psalm 23 433 Psalm 137 434 from The New England Primer 434 Alphabet 435 The Dutiful Child's Promises 435 Verses 436 The death of John Rogers 437 Mary White Rowlandson [Talcott] (1637?-1711) 440 from Narrative of the Captivity and Resauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 468 Edward Taylor ( 1642?-1729) 472 from God's Determinations 472 The Preface 473 The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour 474 Christs Reply 478 The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended 479 from Occasional Poems 479 4. Huswifery