Works by Emily Brontë [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Novels
Verse
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- Will the day be bright or cloudy?
- High waveing heather 'neath stormy blasts bending
- Red breast early in the morning
- There shines the moon, at noon of night
- The night of storms has past
- I saw thee child one summers day
- O God of heaven! the dream of horror
- Lord of Elbë, on Elbë hill
- Alone I sat the summer day
- The battle had passed from the height
- A sudden chasm of ghastly light
- Lines ("Far away is the land of rest")
- The Old church tower and Garden wall
- Now trust a breast that trusts in you
- Sleep brings no joy to me
- The night is darkening around me
- O mother I am not regreting
- To a Wreath of snow
- Lines ("I die but when the grave shall press")
- Song by Julius Angora
- Fall leaves fall die flowers away
- Weaned from life and torn away
- The wide cathedral Isles are lone
- Why do I hate that lone green dell?
- O wander not so far away!
- Gleneden's Dream
- Song to A A
- Darkness was over Gondall every face
- None of my kindred now can tell
- 'Twas one of those dark cloudy days
- Dougleses Ride
- For him who struck thy foreign string
- The evening sun was sinking down
- Song by Julius Brenzaida to G.S. ("Geraldine, the moon is shining")
- Song by J. Brenzaida to G.S. ("I knew not 't was so dire a crime")
- Where were ye all? and where wert thou
- Light up thy halls! 'Tis closing day
- O Dream, where art thou now?
- Loud without the wind was roaring
- A little while, a little while
- How still, how happy! those are words
- The bluebell is the sweetest flower
- The night was Dark yet winter breathed
- What winter floods what showers of Spring
- From our evening fireside now
- Song ("King Julius left the south country")
- Lines ("The soft unclouded blue of air")
- To the bluebell—
- I am the only being whose doom
- May Flowers are opening
- Lines by Claudia ("I did not sleep 'twas noon of day")
- I know not how it falls on me
- Written on returning to the P. of I. on the 10th of January 1827—
- Month after month year after year
- A Farewell to Alexandria—
- And now the housedog streched once more
- Come hither child—who gifted thee
- Shed no tears o'er that tomb
- Mild the mist upon the hill
- How long will you remain the midnight hour
- "The starry night shall tidings bring"
- Fair sinks the summer evening now
- Alcona in its changing mood
- The organ swells the trumpets sound
- Song ("O between distress and pleasure")
- The wind I hear it sighing
- There was a time when my cheek burned
- Stanzas to — ("Well, some may hate and some may scorn")
- The wind was rough which tore
- That wind I used to hear it swelling
- Heavens glory shone where he was laid
- Written in the Gaaldine prison caves To A.G.A.
- Far, far away is mirth withdrawn
- It is too late to call thee now
- Stanzas ("I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me")
- At such a time, in such a spot
- If greif for greif can touch thee
- Tis moon light summer moonlight
- The night wind
- Companions all day long we've stood
- A.G.A. The Death of
- And like myself lone wholey lone
- The Old Stoic
- Shall Earth no more inspire thee
- Aye there it is! It wakes to night
- I see around me tombstones grey
- Geraldine
- Rosina
- I do not weep, I would not weep
- In the same place, when Nature wore
- Had there been falshood in my breast
- Written in Aspin Castle—
- Self-Interrogation
- On the fall of Zalona
- How Clear She Shines
- To A.S. 1830 ("Where beams the sun the brightest")
- Thy Guardians are asleep
- In the earth, the earth shalt thou be laid
- Hope
- Lie down and rest—the fight is done
- T'was yesterday at early dawn
- The day is done—the winter sun
- My Comforter
- This summer wind, with thee and me
- A Day Dream
- How few, of all the hearts that loved
- Song ("The linnet in the rocky dells")
- To Imagination
- Come, the wind may never again
- Plead for Me
- Faith and Despondency
- From a Dungeon Wall in the Southern College—
- Honour's Martyr
- A Death-Scene
- The Philosopher
- Remembrance
- Death
- Stars
- A thousand sounds of happiness
- Heavy hangs the raindrop
- Child of Delight! with sunbright hair
- Anticipation
- I know that tonight, the wind is sighing
- Silent is the House—all are laid asleep
- The Prisoner: A Fragment
- No coward soul is mine
- Why ask to know the date—the clime?
- Why ask to know what date what clime
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- Love is like the wild rose briar
- Sympathy
- "Thou standest in the green-wood now"
- Come, walk with me
- Sleep not dream not this bright day
- Alas that she
- Deep deep down in the silent grave
- Here with my knee upon thy stone
- O come again what chains withhold
- Was it with the feilds of green
- How loud the Storm sounds round the Hall!
- What use is it to slumber here
- O evening why is thy light so sad?
- Its over now Ive known it all
- O Hinder me by no delay
- I'll come when thou art sadest
- I would have touched the heavnly key
- It was night and on the mountains
- Yes holy be thy resting place
- Lonly at her window sitting
- There are two trees in a lonely feild
- And the wind swept past her hopeless ear
- What is that smoke that ever still
- Still as she looked the iron clouds
- Away away resign me now
- It will not shine again
- None but one beheld him dying
- Coldly bleakly drearily
- Old Hall of Time ruined lonly now
- Cold clear and blue the morning heaven
- Tell me tell me smileing child
- The inspiring musics thrilling sound
- Strong I stand thought I have borne
- I paused on the threshold I turned to the sky
- O come with me thus ran the song
- Woods you need not frown on me
- How golden bright from earth and heaven
- Not a vapour had stained the breezless blue
- Only some spires of bright green grass
- The sun has set and the long grass now
- Lady in your palace Hall
- And first an hour of mournful museing
- Wind sink to rest in the heather
- Long neglect has worn away
- Awaking morning laughs from heaven
- Her sisters and her brothers feet
- O Harold while the darkness falls
- Tis evening now the sun descends
- We wander on we have no rest
- What Shadow is it
- There let thy bleeding branch atone
- Upon her aching breast
- I gazed within thine ernest eyes
- All hushed and still within the house
- Iernës eyes were glazed and dim
- When days of Beauty deck the earth
- Still beside that dreary water
- There swept adown that dreary glen
- In dungeons dark I cannot sing
- I'm happiest when most away
- Methinks this heart should rest awhile
- That dreary lake that midnight sky
- His land may burst the galling chain
- It is not pride it is not shame
- She dried her tears and they did smile
- But the hearts that once adored me
- Start not upon the minster wall
- My heart is not enrapturd now
- What woke it then? a little child
- I heard it then you heard it too
- Through the doors of yester night
- Harp of wild and dream like Strain
- All day I've toiled but not with pain
- Stanzas ("Often rebuked, yet always back returning")
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