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004. “To ——, p. 4

Anne Brontë
1820–1849

To Cowper and other poems : autograph manuscript of 9 poems, signed, 1842–1845

MA 28

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900

Transcription

   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).