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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong
For such despite they cast on female wits. . . .

Source: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Prologue, 1678.
-- Anne Bradstreet, (NA 1612?-1672), US poet; Her Verse, 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America.

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