Read the first lines from Anne Bradstreet’s “Verses Upon the Burning of Our House” and answer the question that follows:

I, starting up, the light did spy,

And to my God my heart did cry

To straighten me in my Distress

And not to leave me succourless.


What is the meaning of the word “succourless” as used in the context of the poem?


Discouraged
Comforted
Helpless
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