“To ——, p. 5
To Cowper and other poems : autograph manuscript of 9 poems, signed, 1842–1845
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900
“To ——” (pp. 4–6)
Dated December 1842, when Brontë was twenty-two. Not included in Poems (1846); first published in Ada May Harrison and Derek Stanford, Anne Brontë: Her Life and Work (London: Methuen & Co., 1959). Poem 20 in Chitham (1979).
If few and short the joys of life
That thou on Earth couldst know
Little thou knew’st of sin and strife
Nor much of pain and wo
And yet I cannot check my sighs
If vain thy earthly hopes did prove
Thou cans’t not mourn their flight
Thy brightest hopes were fixed above
And they shall know no blight.
And yet I cannot check my sighs
Thou wert so young and fair
More bright than summer morning skies skies
But stern Death would not spare
He would not pass our darling bye
Nor grant one hour’s delay
But rudely closed his shining eye
And frowned his smile away
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