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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).
[“My soul is awakened”] (pp. 6–7)
Dated 30 December 1842, when Brontë was twenty-two. First published in Poems (1846) with title “Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day.” Poem 21 in Chitham (1979).
That Angel smile that late so much,
Could my fond heart rejoice;
And he has silenced by his touch,
The music of thy voice,
I’ll weep no more thine early doom
But O I still must mourn
The pleasures buried in thy tomb
For they will not return!
A Brontë Dec 1842
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My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring,
And carried aloft on the wings of the wind breeze;
For around above, and around me, the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
The long withered grass in the sunshine shining is glancing
Text as published in Poems (1846)
LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY.
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
The long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing,
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