Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
Emily Brontë’s (1818-1848) first verses appeared in a book with work by her sisters Charlotte and Anne, pseudonymously titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell in order to conceal the authors’ gender. Emily’s poems are distinguished from her siblings’ by their sober tone and visionary spirituality, qualities also found in her famous novel, Wuthering Heights.
POEMS
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
No Coward Soul Is Mine
Shall earth no more inspire thee