Her Mother's Epitaph

Her Mother's Epitaph

Here lies
A worthy matron of unspotted life,
A loving mother and obedient wife,
A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor,
Whom oft she fed, and clothed with her store;
To servants wisely aweful, but yet kind,
And as they did, so they reward did find:
A true instructor of her family,
The which she ordered with dexterity,
The public meetings ever did frequent,
And in her closest constant hours she spent;
Religious in all her words and ways,
Preparing still for death, till end of days:
Of all her children, children lived to see,
Then dying, left a blessed memory.
               ~Anne Bradstreet

As shown before in "My Dear and Loving Husband", Anne Bradstreet clearly has strong feelings for the people she is close to. "My Dear and Loving Husband" goes into detail of her feelings and relationship with her husband. In "Her Mother's Epitaph" she speaks of the life of someones mother. She describes all the good things that she did and how she acted. The Puritans valued the people in society who acted this way, which explains why Bradstreet ended the poem with, "Then dying, left a blessed memory."