A use of adversity

Nineteenth century depiction of Anne Bradstreet by Edmund H. Garrett. No portrait made during her lifetime exists

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

— From Anne Bradstreet’s (1612-1672) “Meditations Divine and Moral." The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan was the first major poetic voice in British colonial America.