An Collins is one of the first English women to publish a book of poetry. Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) is Collins’s only extant work, and it survives in a single copy held at the Huntington Library. Sparse autobiographical details shared in her work reveal that she was housebound from a young age by some affliction that caused mental and physical suffering, but she resists biographical speculation even as she invites it. Collins anticipates becoming an “author … unknown,” yet encourages readers to see in her poems the “image of my mind.” Divine Songs borrows language and stylistic features from the scriptures, catechisms, and George Herbert’s The Temple, even as Collins experiments formally throughout the collection. Collins’s confidence in the coherence of her work, her exploration of suffering and comfort, and her experiments with poetic revelation of experiential truth challenge expectations of seventeenth-century spiritual autobiography and religious lyric.