Anne Killigrew

thumb| Anne Killigrew (1660 – 16 June 1685) was an English poet and painter. Born in London, she and her family were active in literary and court circles. Killigrew's poems were circulated in manuscript and collected and published posthumously in 1686 after she died from smallpox at age 25. Quotes Poems (1686) More rich, more noble I will ever holdThe Muse's laurel, than a crown of gold. "Upon the Saying that My Verses were Made by Another" I willingly accept Cassandra's fate,To speak the truth, although believ'd too late. "Upon the Saying that My Verses were Made by Another" The bloody wolf, the wolf does not pursue;The boar, though fierce, his tusk will not embrueIn his own kind,Bears, not on bears do prey:Then art thou, man, more savage far than they. "The Miseries of Man" We are Diana’s virgin train,Descended of no mortal strain:Our bows and arrows are our goods,Our palaces the lofty woods.* * *If you ask where such wights do dwell,In what blest clime, that so excel,The poets only that can tell. "On a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana’s, One in a Posture to Hunt, the Other Bathing" About Killigrew What ever happy region is thy place,Cease thy celestial song a little space;(Thou wilt have time enough for hymns divine,Since Heav'n's eternal year is thine.) Art she had none, yet wanted none:For Nature did that want supply. John Dryden, "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew", prefixed to Killigrew's posthumous Poems (1686) External links Category:Poets from England Category:Painters from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Women artists Category:People from London Category:1660 births Category:1685 deaths Category:Women born before the 19th century