The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte
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Anne Bronte
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) hailed from an English literary family responsible for some of the medium’s most memorable works. She was the youngest of six children that included sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Their father was a clergyman, who raised them in a parish with very little money. As an adult, Anne took a position as a governess to financially support herself but found the position difficult and unfulfilling. In 1846, she and her sisters published a collection of poetry called Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, which marked a humble beginning to a short yet impactful career.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I haven't read any(/either?) of Anne's novels, but I liked her poems quite a bit--especially the religious ones--so I may have to rectify this, haha.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In all there are 54 poems by Anne Brontë in this collection.I'm not a fan of poetry and this is the first collection of poems that I've read willingly - they forced me to read a lot at university.My reason for reading this collection is because I'm a big fan of Anne's prose fiction. As she only wrote two novels, I wanted to read everything else she penned during her short life.I'd recently read 20 of these poems in a mixture of prose and poetry featured in the collection of works by the Brontë siblings - namely 'Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal' - and discovered that Anne's poetry was far more palatable than any poems I'd read at university.Anne's poems are largely epic, telling stories, rather than trying to be cryptic and saying one thing whilst meaning another, which is why I didn't dislike this collection.
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bronte - Anne Bronte
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ANNE BRONTE
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INTRODUCTION{1}
BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË
In looking over my sister Anne's papers, I find mournful evidence that religious feeling had been to her but too much like what it was to Cowper; I mean, of course, in a far milder form. Without rendering her a prey to those horrors that defy concealment, it subdued her mood and bearing to a perpetual pensiveness; the pillar of a cloud glided constantly before her eyes; she ever waited at the foot of a secret Sinai, listening in her heart to the voice of a trumpet sounding long and waxing louder. Some, perhaps, would rejoice over these tokens of sincere though sorrowing piety in a deceased relative: I own, to me they seem sad, as if her whole innocent life had been passed under the martyrdom of an unconfessed physical pain: their effect, indeed, would be too distressing, were it not combated by the certain knowledge that in her last moments this tyranny of a too tender conscience was overcome; this pomp of terrors broke up, and passing away, left her dying hour unclouded. Her belief in God did not then bring to her dread, as of a stern Judge,—but hope, as in a Creator and Saviour: and no faltering hope was it, but a sure and stedfast conviction, on which, in the rude passage from Time to Eternity, she threw the weight of her human weakness, and by which she was enabled to bear what was to be borne, patiently—serenely—victoriously.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE CAPTAIN'S DREAM
THE NORTH WIND
THE PARTING
THE PARTING
VERSES TO A CHILD
SELF-CONGRATULATION
THE BLUEBELL
AN ORPHAN'S LAMENT
LINES WRITTEN AT THORP GREEN
APPEAL
DESPONDENCY
TO COWPER
IN MEMORY OF A HAPPY DAY IN FEBRUARY
LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY
A WORD TO THE 'ELECT.'
THE DOUBTER'S PRAYER
THE CAPTIVE DOVE
THE CONSOLATION
PAST DAYS
THE STUDENT'S SERENADE
A REMINISCENCE
MEMORY
FLUCTUATIONS
A PRAYER
THE DUNGEON
HOME
CALL ME AWAY
NIGHT
DREAMS
IF THIS BE ALL
CONFIDENCE
VIEWS OF LIFE
SONG. We know where deepest lies the snow
SONG. Come to the banquet—triumph in your songs!
VANITAS VANITATUM, OMNIA VANITAS
STANZAS. Oh, weep not, love! each tear that springs
THE PENITENT
THE ARBOUR
MUSIC ON CHRISTMAS MORNING
There let thy bleeding branch atone
Oh, they have robbed me of the hope
DOMESTIC PEACE
MIRTH AND MOURNING
Weep not too much, my darling
THE POWER OF LOVE
I DREAMT LAST NIGHT
THE LOVER
SEVERED AND GONE
THE THREE GUIDES
Farewell to thee! but not farewell
SELF-COMMUNION
THE NARROW WAY
FRAGMENT. Yes I will take a cheerful tone
LAST LINES
THE CAPTAIN'S DREAM
Methought I saw him but I knew him not;
He was so changed from what he used to be,
There was no redness on his woe-worn cheek,
No sunny smile upon his ashy lips,
His hollow wandering eyes looked wild and fierce,
And grief was printed on his marble brow,
And, oh, I thought he claspéd his wasted hands,
And raised his haggard eyes to Heaven, and prayed
That he might die—I had no power to speak,
I thought I was allowed to see him thus;
And yet I might not speak one single word;
I might not even tell him that I lived
And that it might be possible if search were made,
To find out where I was and set me free,
Oh! how I longed to clasp him to my heart,
Or but to hold his trembling hand in mine,
And speak one word of comfort to his mind,
I struggled wildly but it was in vain,
I could not rise from my dark dungeon floor,
And the dear name I vainly strove to speak,
Died in a voiceless whisper on my tongue.
Then I awoke, and lo! it was a dream!
A dream? Alas it was reality!
For well I know wherever he may be
He mourns me thus—O heaven I could bear
My deadly fate with calmness if there were
No kindred hearts to bleed and break for me!
THE NORTH WIND
That wind is from the North, I know it well;
No other breeze could have so wild a swell.
Now deep and loud it thunders round my cell,
The faintly dies, and softly sighs,
And moans and murmurs mournfully.
I know its language; thus is speaks to me—
'I have passed over thy own mountains dear,
Thy northern mountains—and they still are free,
Still lonely, wild, majestic, bleak and drear,
And stern and lovely, as they used to be
When thou, a young enthusiast,
As wild and free as they,
O'er rocks and glens and snowy heights
Didst often love to stray.
I've blown the wild untrodden snows
In whirling eddies from their brows,
And I have howled in caverns wild
Where thou, a joyous mountain child,
Didst dearly love to be.
The sweet world is not changed, but thou
Art pining in a dungeon now,
Where thou must ever be;
No voice but mine can