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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHERE WERE YE ALL? AND WHERE WERT THOU?, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis | |||
Where were ye all? and where wert thou? I saw an eye that shone like thine, But dark curls waved around his brow, And his star-glance was strange to mine. And yet a dreamlike comfort came Into my heart and anxious eye, And trembling yet to hear his name, I bent to listen watchfully. This voice, though never heard before, Still spoke to me of years gone by; It seemed a vision to restore, That brought the hot tears to my eye. I paused on the threshold, I turned to the sky; I looked to the heaven and the dark mountains round; The full moon sailed bright through that ocean on high, And the wind murmured past with a wild eerie sound. And I entered the walls of my dark prison-house; Mysterious it rose from the billowy moor. O come with me, thus ran the song, The moon is bright in Autumn's sky, And thou hast toiled and laboured long, With aching head and weary eye. | 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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