Charlotte Brontë

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 she also wrote numerous engaging poems, many of which were published in Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell in 1846.

Brontë’s ‘Parting’ depicts a lover’s thoughts on what separation means for her relationship.

I now had only to retrace

Life

On the Death of Anne Brontë

Parting

Preference

The Autumn day its course has run

The house was still—the room was still

The Nurse believed the sick man slept