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Emily Bronte Poetry

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~Wolf Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (18:53) seed
Did you know she wrote poetry?
~terry Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (19:26) #1
Can you post a sample, wolfmiestress?
~Wolf Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (23:05) #2
love to, but we gotta ask riette. apparantly she knows a few of them. (i was one of the few who didn't know Emily had written poems)
~riette Tue, Jul 7, 1998 (05:43) #3
Thank you, Wolf. Yes, Emily wrote fantastic poetry - well, in my opinion anyway, and I don't know that much poetry at all. But, though far from her best, here's one of my favourites - see if you like it too. It's called, 'Hope', and it moves me every time I read it: Hope was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men. She was cruel in her fear; Through the bars, one dreary day, I looked out to see her there, And she turned her face away! Like a false guard, false watch keeping, Still in strife, she whispered peace; She would sing while I was weeping; If I listened, she would cease. False she was, and unrelenting; When my last joys strewed the ground; Even Sorrow saw, repenting, Those sad relics scattered round; Hope, whose whisper would have given Balm to all my frenzied pain, Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven, Went, and ne'er returned again!
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