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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TELL ME, TELL ME, SMILING CHILD, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis | |||
Tell me, tell me, smiling child, What the past is like to thee? An Autumn evening, soft and mild, With a wind that sighs mournfully. Tell me what is the present hour? A green and flowery spray, Where a young bird sits gathering its power To mount and fly away. And what is the future, happy one? A sea beneath a cloudless sun; A mighty, glorious, dazzling sea, Stretching into infinity. The inspiring music's thrilling sound, The glory of the festal day, The glittering splendour rising round, Have passed like all earth's joys away. Forsaken by that lady fair, She glides unheeding through them all; Covering her brow to hide the tear That still, though checked, trembles to fall. She hurries through the outer hall, And up the stairs through galleries dim, That murmur to the breezes' call The night-wind's lonely vesper hymn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AH! WHY, BECAUSE THE DAZZLING SUN by EMILY JANE BRONTE ALL HUSHED AND STILL WITHIN THE HOUSE by EMILY JANE BRONTE IF GRIEF FOR GRIEF CAN TOUCH THEE by EMILY JANE BRONTE IN SUMMER'S MELLOW MIDNIGHT by EMILY JANE BRONTE LONG NEGLECT HAS WORN AWAY by EMILY JANE BRONTE LOUD WITHOUT THE WIND WAS ROARING by EMILY JANE BRONTE NO COWARD SOUL IS MINE by EMILY JANE BRONTE THAT WIND I USED TO HEAR IT SWELLING by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE NIGHT IS DARKENING ROUND ME by EMILY JANE BRONTE A DAY DREAM by EMILY JANE BRONTE |
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