POEMS FOREVERInscription on the Fountain of JemshidBy Saadi Shirazi I have heard that Jemshid, of happy disposition, inscribed on a tablet at the head of a fountain: “Many, like ourselves, have breathed at this fountain, and departed, and closed.
Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as an accomplished New World Poet. Her volume of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America . received considerable favorable attention when it was first published in London in 1650..