Table of Contents
Note on the Authors and Editor vii
Chronology of the Brontës' Lives and Times viii
Introduction xviii
Poems
Charlotte Brontë
from Retrospection 3
The Teacher's Monologue 4
Mementos 7
Parting 15
Life 16
'The Autumn day its course has run' 17
'Early wrapt in slumber deep' 17
'He saw my heart's woe' 18
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë 19
On the Death of Anne Bronte 20
Patrick Bramwell Brontë
Augusta 21
Lines 23
Memory 23
'Oh, all our cares' 24
'The man who will not know another' 25
On Caroline 26
'Now-but one moment, let me stay' 27
Death Triumphant 28
To Sestius 29
'Oh Thou, whose beams were most withdrawn' 30
'O God! while I in pleasure wiles' 31
Peaceful Death and Painful Life 32
Thorp Green 32
Penmænmawr 33
Epistle From a Father to a Child in Her Grave 36
Emily fane Brontë
'Will the day be bright or cloudy?' 39
'Tell me, tell me, smiling child' 40
'Alone I sat' 40
Lines ('Far away is the land of rest') 41
Lines ('I die, but when the grave shall press') 42
To a Wreath of Snow by A. G. Almeda 42
Song to A. A. 43
Song by Julius Brenzaida to G. S. 44
F. De Samara to A. G. A. 45
'Loud without the wind was roaring' 46
'The blue bell is the sweetest flower' 49
Song ('King Julius left the south country') 50
'Come hither, child' 51
Song ('O between distress and pleasure') 52
'Love is like the wild rose briar' 53
'Come, walk with me' 54
Stanzas 55
'If grief for grief can touch thee' 55
The Night-Wind 56
The Old Stoic 57
To A. G. A. 58
Hope 59
Song ('The linnet in the rocky dells') 60
To Imagination 61
A Death-Scene 62
Remembrance 64
Death 65
Stars 66
A. E. and R. C. 68
The Prisoner 70
'No coward soul is mine' 72
Anne Brontë
The Bluebell 74
Appeal 75
Lines Written at Thorp Green 76
Despondency 77
In Memory of a Happy Day in February 78
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day 80
The Captive Dove 80
The Consolation 81
A Reminiscence 82
Memory 83
A Prayer 85
Home 85
Dreams 86
If This Be All 87
The Penitent 88
'Oh, they have robbed me of the hope' 89
The Arbour 90
Last Lines 91
Notes 94
Acknowledgements 101
