Milcah Martha Moore
Ọdịdị
Milcah Martha Moore(1740–1829) bụ onye na-ede uri Quaker America nke narị afọ nke 18, onye okike nke akwụkwọ a na-ahụkarị nke na-egosipụta ọrụ ụmụ nwanyị na-ede akwụkwọ gburugburu ya na onye na-achịkọta akwụkwọ prose na uri ebi ebi.
Okwu Ndị okwuru
[dezie]- Ebe ọ bụ na ndị ikom si na nnọkọ oriri na ọṅụṅụ ma ọ bụ egwu nke mgbaka,
A na-edebe sugar-plum na nwayọọ nwayọọ,
N'ụra ụra - na-anapụ ha anya,
A napụrụ onwe ha nnwere onwe, na-apụnara ha ikike ha;
Ọ bụrụ na ụmụ, otú degenerate! Ngọzi ndị ahụ na-elelị,
Ka ụmụ-ada nke nnwere onwe bilie n’ụzọ dị mma;
Ma ọ bụ ezie na anyị enweghị olu ma ọ bụ ihe ọjọọ ebe a,
Iji ụtụ isi mee ihe, ka anyị ghara:—
- "Ndị Patriots Female, Okwu a na-agwa ụmụ nwanyị nke nnwere onwe na America, 1768" (ed. Patti Cowell, 1981)
- Site na ederede e bipụtara na [[w:Pennsylvania Chronicle|Pennsylvania Chronicle], mba. 3 (Decemba 18–25, 1769), p. 392. Ederede ọzọ, dabere na MS. nke akwụkwọ nkịtị Moore, pụtara na [[w:William na Mary Quarterly|'William na Mary Quarterly], ser. 3, mba. 34 (Eprel, 1977), p. 307–8
Njikọ mpụga
[dezie]
- Patti Cowell (ed.) Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1650–1775: An Anthology (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1981), p. 275
