The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë/I would have touched the heavenly key

by Emily Brontë

XII

I would have touched the heavenly key
That spoke alike of bliss and thee;
I would have woke the evening song,
But its words died upon my tongue.
But then I knew that he stood free,
Would never speak of joy again,
And then I felt . . . [unfinished].

November 1837.