A blog giveaway

I don’t know that there has ever been a giveaway on this blog. Shame on me!

So, I have decided to have one. I actually have a couple of things to give away, but I shall do this one at a time.

It’s no secret that I like poetry, and I do like biographies. In that vein, the first giveaway is a little biography of Anne Bradstreet, called Pilgrim and Poet. One of the Puritans, she was America's first poet (or one of them at least). I haven’t read it in entirety myself yet, but it’s quite a skinny little book that would be easy to read even for those least interested in poetry, and I have been encouraged by little snippets so far (the Discerning Reader has reviewed Faith Cook's book on Lady Jane Grey here, and Tim Challies has given this one a tick on the back cover).

So, to enter, just leave me a comment, and humour me by quoting a line of poetry, of any sort you like. (But I’ll use some sort of random system to pick a winner.) It will end at midnight on Saturday (17th) and then I'll see if I can actually get anywhere near the counter of a post office.