I now had only to retrace
by Charlotte Brontë
‘I now had only to retrace’ by Charlotte Brontë describes a speaker’s harrowing journey through a rapidly darkening landscape.
Charlotte Brontë was an English poet and novelist and one of the three Brontë sisters. She is best remembered for her novel Jane Eyre but also wrote numerous engaging poems, many of which were published in Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell in 1846.
‘I now had only to retrace’ by Charlotte Brontë describes a speaker’s harrowing journey through a rapidly darkening landscape.
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‘On the Death of Anne Brontë’ by Charlotte Brontë describes the poet’s grief over her beloved sister’s death and her relief that Anne’s suffering has ended.
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