To Cowper and other poems : autograph manuscript of 9 poems, signed, 1842–1845
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900
To ———
I will not mourn thee, lovely one,
Though thou art torn away.
They ’Tis said that if the morning sun
Arize with dazzling ray
And shed a bright and burning beam,
Athwart the glittering main,
Erre noon shall fade that laughing gleam,
Engulphed in clouds and rain;
And if thy life as transient proved
It hath been full as bright,
For thou wert hopeful and beloved,
Thy spirit knew no blight.
“To ——” (pp. 4–6)
Dated December 1842, when Brontë was twenty-two. Not included in Poems (1846); first published in Ada May Harrison and Derek Stanford, Anne Brontë: Her Life and Work (London: Methuen & Co., 1959). Poem 20 in Chitham (1979).