Author:Emily Jane Brontë/Index of Titles


 * The Absent One (From our evening fireside now)
 * All day I've toiled, but not with pain
 * All her tresses backward strayed
 * All hushed and still within the house
 * Alone I sat; the summer day
 * And first an hour of mournful musing
 * And like myself lone, wholly lone
 * And now the house-dog stretched once more
 * Anticipation (How beautiful the earth is still)
 * Aspin Castle (How do I love on summer night)
 * At Castle Wood (The day is done, the winter sun)
 * At such a time, in such a spot
 * Awake, awake! how loud the stormy morning
 * Aye—there it is! it wakes to-night


 * The battle had passed from the height
 * Bitterly, deeply I've drunk of thy woe
 * The Bluebell (The Bluebell is the sweetest flower)
 * The busy day has hurried by


 * * The Caged Bird (see "And like myself lone, wholly lone")
 * Child of delight, with sun-bright hair
 * * Claudia (see "Lines by Claudia")
 * Cold, clear, and blue the morning heaven
 * Come hither, child; who gifted thee
 * Come, walk with me
 * Companions all day long we've stood
 * Confidence (Oppressed with sin and woe)


 * Darkness was overtraced on every face
 * A Day Dream (On a sunny brae alone I lay)
 * Death (Death! that struck when I was most confiding)
 * A Death-Scene (O Day! he cannot die)
 * * The desert moor is dark (compare "Light up thy halls! 'Tis closing day")
 * Despondency (I have gone backward in the work)
 * Douglas Ride (Well narrower draw the circle round)


 * The Elder's Rebuke (Listen! When your hair, like mine)
 * Encouragement (I do not weep; I would not weep)
 * The evening sun was sinking down


 * Fair sinks the summer evening now
 * Faith and Despondency (The winter wind is loud and wild)
 * Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away
 * Far, far is mirth withdrawn
 * * A fresh wind waves (compare "And first an hour of mournful musing")


 * Geraldine ('Twas night, her comrades gathered all)
 * Gleneden's Dream (Tell me, whether is it winter?)
 * * Go to the grave in youth's bare woe! (compare "Heaven's glory shone where he was laid")
 * Gods of the old mythology
 * Grave in the Ocean (Where beams the sun the brightest)


 * Had there been falsehood in my breast
 * Harp of wild and dream-like strain
 * * He smiles and sings (compare "Thy sun is near meridian height")
 * * The heart which cannot know another
 * Heaven's glory shone where he was laid
 * * Here am I standing lonely (compare "Now—but one moment—let me stay")
 * * Here with my knee upon thy stone (compare "O hinder me by no delay!")
 * High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending
 * His land may burst the galling chain
 * Honour's Martyr (The moon is full this winter night)
 * Hope (Hope was but a timid friend)
 * How Clear She Shines (How clear she shines! How quietly)
 * * How deep into the wilderness (compare "The night was dark, yet winter breathed")
 * How Edenlike seem palace walls
 * How long will you remain? The midnight hour
 * How still, how happy! These are words


 * I am the only being whose doom
 * I do not see myself again
 * * I gazed upon the cloudless moon (compare "Had there been falsehood in my breast")
 * I know not how it falls on me
 * * I know our souls are all divine (compare "At such a time, in such a spot")
 * I know that to-night the wind it is sighing
 * I saw thee, child, one summer day
 * I see around me piteous tombstones grey
 * I would have touched the heavenly key
 * If grief for grief can touch thee
 * I'll come when thou art saddest
 * I'm happiest now when most away
 * I'm standing in the forest now
 * In dungeons dark I cannot sing
 * In Memory of a Happy Day in February (Blessed be Thou for all the joy)
 * In the same place, when nature wore
 * It is too late to call thee now
 * Its faded buds already lie
 * It's over now; I've known it all
 * * It was a little budding rose (compare "On its bending stalk a bonny flower")
 * It was night, and on the mountains
 * * It was the autumn of the year
 * I've been wandering in the greenwoods


 * * Lady, watch Apollo's journey (compare "Cold, clear, and blue the morning heaven")
 * The Lady to Her Guitar (For him who struck thy foreign string)
 * Ladybird! ladybird! fly away home
 * Last Words (I knew not 'twas so dire a crime)
 * Light up thy halls! 'Tis closing day
 * Lines (Far away is the land of rest)
 * Lines (I die, but when the grave shall press)
 * Lines (The soft unclouded blue of air)
 * Lines by Claudia (I did not sleep; 'twas noon of day)
 * A little while, a little while
 * Loud without the wind was roaring (posthumous)
 * Loud without the wind was roaring (unpublished)
 * Love and Friendship (Love is like the wild rose-brier)


 * May flowers are opening
 * Mild the mist upon the hill
 * Month after month, year after year
 * * The Moors (compare "Loud without the wind was roaring")
 * My ancient ship upon my ancient sea
 * My Comforter (Well hast thou spoken, and yet not taught)
 * My Lady's Grave same as "Song" (The linnet in the rocky dells)


 * * Never (see "That Word 'Never'")
 * The night is darkening round me
 * The night of storms has past
 * The night was dark, yet winter breathed
 * The Night-Wind (In summer's mellow midnight)
 * No coward soul is mine
 * None of my kindred now can tell
 * Now—but one moment—let me stay
 * Now trust a heart that trusts in you


 * O dream, where art thou now?
 * O God of heaven! The dream of horror
 * O hinder me by no delay!
 * * O innocence, that cannot live (compare "In the same place, when nature wore")
 * O might my footsteps find a rest!
 * O mother! I am not regretting
 * O wander not so far away!
 * Oh, all the cares these noontide airs
 * The old church tower and garden wall
 * The Old Stoic (Riches I hold in light esteem)
 * On its bending stalk a bonny flower
 * On the Fall of Zalona (All blue and bright in golden light)
 * * One pause upon the brink of life
 * The organ swells, the trumpets sound
 * * The Outcast Mother


 * The Philosopher (Enough of thought, philosopher!)
 * Plead for Me (Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now)
 * A Prayer (My God! O let me call Thee mine!)
 * The Prisoner (In the dungeon-crypts idly did I stray)


 * Redbreast, early in the morning
 * Remembrance (Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee)
 * Retirement (O let me be alone awhile!)
 * Roderic (Lie down and rest, the fight is done)
 * Rosina (Weeks of wild delirium past)
 * Rosina, this had never been


 * Self-Interrogation (The evening passes fast away)
 * A Serenade (Thy Guardians are asleep)
 * Shall earth no more inspire thee
 * She dried her tears and they did smile
 * Shed no tears o'er that tomb
 * * The Signal Light (see 1. "The Visionary" 2. "The Prisoner")
 * * Silent he sat. That stormy breast (compare "Lines")
 * Sleep brings no joy to me
 * Sleep, mourner, sleep! I cannot sleep
 * Sleep not, dream not; this bright day
 * Song (Geraldine, the moon is shining)
 * Song (King Julius left the south country)
 * Song (The linnet in the rocky dells)
 * Song (Lord of Elbe, on Elbe hill)
 * Song (O between distress and pleasure)
 * Song (This shall be thy lullaby)
 * Song (What rider up Gobeloin's glen)
 * Stanzas (I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me)
 * Stanzas (Often rebuked, yet always back returning)
 * Stanzas To—— (Well, some may hate, and some may scorn)
 * The starry night shall tidings bring
 * Stars (Ah! why, because the dazzling sun)
 * Start not! upon the minster wall
 * Still beside that dreary water
 * The sun has set, and the long grass now
 * Strong I stand, though I have borne
 * A sudden chasm of ghastly light
 * The sunshine of a summer sun
 * Sympathy (There should be no despair for you)


 * Tell me, tell me, smiling child
 * That dreary lake, that moonlight sky
 * That wind, I used to hear it swelling
 * That Word 'Never' (Not many years but long enough to see)
 * There let thy bleeding branch atone
 * There swept adown that dreary glen
 * There was a time when my cheek burned
 * There's something in this glorious hour
 * This summer wind with thee and me
 * A thousand sounds of happiness
 * Through the hours of yesternight
 * Thy sun is near meridian height
 * 'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight
 * To a Bluebell (Sacred watcher, wave thy bells!)
 * To a Wreath of Snow (O transient voyager of heaven!)
 * To Imagination (When weary with the long day's care)
 * To the Horse Black Eagle that I rode at the Battle of Zamorna (Swart steed of night, thou hast charged thy last)
 * * 'Twas just the time of eve (compare "The night of storms has past")
 * 'Twas one of those dark, cloudy days
 * 'Twas yesterday at early dawn
 * The Two Children (Heavy hangs the rain-drop)


 * * Upon her soothing breast (compare "Heaven's glory shone where he was laid")


 * The Visionary (Silent is the house: all are laid asleep)


 * The Wanderer from the Fold (How few, of all the hearts that loved)
 * Warning and Reply (In the earth—the earth—thou shalt be laid)
 * Weaned from life and flown away
 * Were they shepherds, who sat all day
 * What winter floods, what streams of spring
 * When days of beauty deck the vale
 * Where were ye all? and where wert thou?
 * * Why ask to know what date, what clime?
 * Why do I hate that lone green dell?
 * The wind I hear it sighing
 * The wind was rough which tore


 * Yes, holy be thy resting-place
 * Yet o'er his face a solemn light