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Emily Jane Brontë: The Complete Poems

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Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
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I. Poems Published in 1846
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60

35.

[O mother I am not regretting]

O mother I am not regretting
To leave this wretched world below
If there be nothing but forgetting
In that dark land to which I go
Yet though 'tis wretched now to languish
Deceived and tired and hopeless here
No heart can quite repress the anguish
Of leaving things that once were dear
Twice twelve short years and all is over
And day and night to rise no more
And never more to be a rover
Along the fields the woods the shore
And never more at early dawning
To watch the stars of midnight wane
To breathe the breath of summer morning
And see its sunshine ne'er again
I hear the Abbey bells are ringing
Methinks their chime sound faint and drear
Or else the wind is adverse winging
And wafts its music from my ear
The wind the winter night is speaking
Of thoughts and things that should not stay
Mother come near my heart is breaking
I cannot bear to go away
And I must go whence no returning
To soothe your grief or calm your care
Nay do not weep that bitter mourning
Tortures my soul with wild despair
No tell me that when I am lying
In the old church beneath the stone
You'll dry your tears and check your sighing
And soon forget the spirit gone
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You've asked me long to tell what sorrow
Has blanched my cheek and quenched my eye
And we shall sever ere tomorrow
So I'll confess before I die
Ten years ago in last September
Fernando left his home and you
And still I think you must remember
The anguish of that last adieu
And well you know how wildly pining
I longed to see his face again
Through all the Autumn's drear declining
Its stormy nights and days of rain
Down on the skirts of Areon's forest
There lies a lone and lovely glade
And there the hearts together nourished
Their first their fatal parting made
The afternoon in softened glory
So Bathed each green swell and waving tree
Beyond the broad park spread before me
Stretched far away the boundless sea
And there I stood when he had left me
With ashy cheek but tearless eye
Watching the ship whose sail bereft me
Of life and hope and peace and joy
It past that night I sought a pillow
Of sleepless woe and grieving lone
My soul still hovered o'er the billow
And mourned a love for ever flown
Yet smiling bright in recollection
One blissful hour returns to me
One letter told of firm affection
Of safe deliverance from the sea
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But not another fearing hoping
Spring winter harvest glided o'er
And time at length brought power for coping
With thoughts I could not once endure
And I would seek in summer's evening
The place that saw our last farewell
And there a chain of visions weaving
I'd linger till the curfew bell
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