To Cowper and other poems : autograph manuscript of 9 poems, signed, 1842–1845
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900
Night
I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What my may not bless my waking eyes;
And then a voice may meet my ear,
That death has silenced long ago;
And hope and rapture may appear,
Instead of solitude and wo.
Cold in the grave for years has lain,
The form it was my bliss to see,
And only dreams can bring again,
The darling of my heart to me.
A.B. Written early in 1845
“Night” (p. 22)
Dated “early in 1845,” when Brontë was twenty-five or twenty-six. Not included in Poems (1846); first published in Brontë Poems (London: Smith, Elder, 1915). Poem 37 in Chitham (1979).