Author:Emily Jane Brontë/Index of Titles

Index of Titles

A

• The Absent One (From our evening fireside now)
  
• All day I've toiled, but not with pain
  
• All her tresses backward strayed
  
• All hushed and still within the house
  
• Alone I sat; the summer day
  
• And first an hour of mournful musing
  
• And like myself lone, wholly lone
  
• And now the house-dog stretched once more
  
• Anticipation (How beautiful the earth is still)
  
• Aspin Castle (How do I love on summer night)
  
• At Castle Wood (The day is done, the winter sun)
  
• At such a time, in such a spot
  
• Awake, awake! how loud the stormy morning
  
• Aye—there it is! it wakes to-night

B

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• The battle had passed from the height
  
• Bitterly, deeply I've drunk of thy woe
  
• The Bluebell (The Bluebell is the sweetest flower)
  
• The busy day has hurried by

C

• *The Caged Bird (see "And like myself lone, wholly lone")
  
• Child of delight, with sun-bright hair
  
• *Claudia (see "Lines by Claudia")
  
• Cold, clear, and blue the morning heaven
  
• Come hither, child; who gifted thee
  
• Come, walk with me
  
• Companions all day long we've stood
  
• Confidence (Oppressed with sin and woe)

D

• Darkness was overtraced on every face
  
• A Day Dream (On a sunny brae alone I lay)
  
• Death (Death! that struck when I was most confiding)
  
• A Death-Scene (O Day! he cannot die)
  
• *The desert moor is dark (compare "Light up thy halls! 'Tis closing day")
  
• Despondency (I have gone backward in the work)
  
• Douglas Ride (Well narrower draw the circle round)

E

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• The Elder's Rebuke (Listen! When your hair, like mine)
  
• Encouragement (I do not weep; I would not weep)
  
• The evening sun was sinking down

F

• Fair sinks the summer evening now
  
• Faith and Despondency (The winter wind is loud and wild)
  
• Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away
  
• Far, far is mirth withdrawn
  
• *A fresh wind waves (compare "And first an hour of mournful musing")

G

• Geraldine ('Twas night, her comrades gathered all)
  
• Gleneden's Dream (Tell me, whether is it winter?)
  
• *Go to the grave in youth's bare woe! (compare "Heaven's glory shone where he was laid")
  
• Gods of the old mythology
  
• Grave in the Ocean (Where beams the sun the brightest)

H

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• Had there been falsehood in my breast
  
• Harp of wild and dream-like strain
  
• *He smiles and sings (compare "Thy sun is near meridian height")
  
• *The heart which cannot know another
  
• Heaven's glory shone where he was laid
  
• *Here am I standing lonely (compare "Now—but one moment—let me stay")
  
• *Here with my knee upon thy stone (compare "O hinder me by no delay!")
  
• High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending
  
• His land may burst the galling chain
  
• Honour's Martyr (The moon is full this winter night)
  
• Hope (Hope was but a timid friend)
  
• How Clear She Shines (How clear she shines! How quietly)
  
• *How deep into the wilderness (compare "The night was dark, yet winter breathed")
  
• How Edenlike seem palace walls
  
• How long will you remain? The midnight hour
  
• How still, how happy! These are words

I

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• I am the only being whose doom
  
• I do not see myself again
  
• *I gazed upon the cloudless moon (compare "Had there been falsehood in my breast")
  
• I know not how it falls on me
  
• *I know our souls are all divine (compare "At such a time, in such a spot")
  
• I know that to-night the wind it is sighing
  
• I saw thee, child, one summer day
  
• I see around me piteous tombstones grey
  
• I would have touched the heavenly key
  
• If grief for grief can touch thee
  
• I'll come when thou art saddest
  
• I'm happiest now when most away
  
• I'm standing in the forest now
  
• In dungeons dark I cannot sing
  
• In Memory of a Happy Day in February (Blessed be Thou for all the joy)
  
• In the same place, when nature wore
  
• It is too late to call thee now
  
• Its faded buds already lie
  
• It's over now; I've known it all
  
• *It was a little budding rose (compare "On its bending stalk a bonny flower")
  
• It was night, and on the mountains
  
• *It was the autumn of the year
  
• I've been wandering in the greenwoods

L

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• *Lady, watch Apollo's journey (compare "Cold, clear, and blue the morning heaven")
  
• The Lady to Her Guitar (For him who struck thy foreign string)
  
• Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home
  
• Last Words (I knew not 'twas so dire a crime)
  
• Light up thy halls! 'Tis closing day
  
• Lines (Far away is the land of rest)
  
• Lines (I die, but when the grave shall press)
  
• Lines (The soft unclouded blue of air)
  
• Lines by Claudia (I did not sleep; 'twas noon of day)
  
• A little while, a little while
  
• Loud without the wind was roaring (posthumous)
  
• Loud without the wind was roaring (unpublished)
  
• Love and Friendship (Love is like the wild rose-brier)

M

• May flowers are opening
  
• Mild the mist upon the hill
  
• Month after month, year after year
  
• *The Moors (compare "Loud without the wind was roaring")
  
• My ancient ship upon my ancient sea
  
• My Comforter (Well hast thou spoken, and yet not taught)
  
• My Lady's Grave same as "Song" (The linnet in the rocky dells)

N

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• *Never (see "That Word 'Never'")
  
• The night is darkening round me
  
• The night of storms has past
  
• The night was dark, yet winter breathed
  
• The Night-Wind (In summer's mellow midnight)
  
• No coward soul is mine
  
• None of my kindred now can tell
  
• Now—but one moment—let me stay
  
• Now trust a heart that trusts in you

O

• O dream, where art thou now?
  
• O God of heaven! The dream of horror
  
• O hinder me by no delay!
  
• *O innocence, that cannot live (compare "In the same place, when nature wore")
  
• O might my footsteps find a rest!
  
• O mother! I am not regretting
  
• O wander not so far away!
  
• Oh, all the cares these noontide airs
  
• The old church tower and garden wall
  
• The Old Stoic (Riches I hold in light esteem)
  
• On its bending stalk a bonny flower
  
• On the Fall of Zalona (All blue and bright in golden light)
  
• *One pause upon the brink of life
  
• The organ swells, the trumpets sound
  
• *The Outcast Mother

P

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• The Philosopher (Enough of thought, philosopher!)
  
• Plead for Me (Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now)
  
• A Prayer (My God! O let me call Thee mine!)
  
• The Prisoner (In the dungeon-crypts idly did I stray)

R

• Redbreast, early in the morning
  
• Remembrance (Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee)
  
• Retirement (O let me be alone awhile!)
  
• Roderic (Lie down and rest, the fight is done)
  
• Rosina (Weeks of wild delirium past)
  
• Rosina, this had never been

S

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• Self-Interrogation (The evening passes fast away)
  
• A Serenade (Thy Guardians are asleep)
  
• Shall earth no more inspire thee
  
• She dried her tears and they did smile
  
• Shed no tears o'er that tomb
  
• *The Signal Light (see 1. "The Visionary" 2. "The Prisoner")
  
• *Silent he sat. That stormy breast (compare "Lines")
  
• Sleep brings no joy to me
  
• Sleep, mourner, sleep! I cannot sleep
  
• Sleep not, dream not; this bright day
  
• Song (Geraldine, the moon is shining)
  
• Song (King Julius left the south country)
  
• Song (The linnet in the rocky dells)
  
• Song (Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill)
  
• Song (O between distress and pleasure)
  
• Song (This shall be thy lullaby)
  
• Song (What rider up Gobeloin's glen)
  
• Stanzas (I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me)
  
• Stanzas (Often rebuked, yet always back returning)
  
• Stanzas To—— (Well, some may hate, and some may scorn)
  
• The starry night shall tidings bring
  
• Stars (Ah! why, because the dazzling sun)
  
• Start not! upon the minster wall
  
• Still beside that dreary water
  
• The sun has set, and the long grass now
  
• Strong I stand, though I have borne
  
• A sudden chasm of ghastly light
  
• The sunshine of a summer sun
  
• Sympathy (There should be no despair for you)

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• Tell me, tell me, smiling child
  
• That dreary lake, that moonlight sky
  
• That wind, I used to hear it swelling
  
• That Word 'Never' (Not many years but long enough to see)
  
• There let thy bleeding branch atone
  
• There swept adown that dreary glen
  
• There was a time when my cheek burned
  
• There's something in this glorious hour
  
• This summer wind with thee and me
  
• A thousand sounds of happiness
  
• Through the hours of yesternight
  
• Thy sun is near meridian height
  
• 'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight
  
• To a Bluebell (Sacred watcher, wave thy bells!)
  
• To a Wreath of Snow (O transient voyager of heaven!)
  
• To Imagination (When weary with the long day's care)
  
• To the Horse Black Eagle that I rode at the Battle of Zamorna (Swart steed of night, thou hast charged thy last)
  
• *'Twas just the time of eve (compare "The night of storms has past")
  
• 'Twas one of those dark, cloudy days
  
• 'Twas yesterday at early dawn
  
• The Two Children (Heavy hangs the rain-drop)

U

• *Upon her soothing breast (compare "Heaven's glory shone where he was laid")

V

• The Visionary (Silent is the house: all are laid asleep)

W

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• The Wanderer from the Fold (How few, of all the hearts that loved)
  
• Warning and Reply (In the earth—the earth—thou shalt be laid)
  
• Weaned from life and flown away
  
• Were they shepherds, who sat all day
  
• What winter floods, what streams of spring
  
• When days of beauty deck the vale
  
• Where were ye all? and where wert thou?
  
• *Why ask to know what date, what clime?
  
• Why do I hate that lone green dell?
  
• The wind I hear it sighing
  
• The wind was rough which tore

Y

• Yes, holy be thy resting-place
  
• Yet o'er his face a solemn light

Notes

*Titles from Brontë Poems: Selections from the poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë (1915)