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.
‘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.
There's little joy in life for me,
And little terror in the grave;
I 've lived the parting hour to see
Of one I would have died to save.
‘I now had only to retrace’ by Charlotte Brontë describes a speaker’s harrowing journey through a rapidly darkening landscape.
‘Life’ by Charlotte Brontë describes the overwhelming true merriment of life and dispels the images of life a dreary and dark dream to be suffered through.
Brontë’s ‘Parting’ depicts a lover’s thoughts on what separation means for her relationship.
‘The Autumn day its course has run’ by Charlotte Brontë describes the comforting presence of darkness as it travels through a speaker’s home.
‘The house was still—the room was still’ by Charlotte Brontë is a fragment of an unfinished work that speaks on freedom and captivity.
The Nurse believed the rich man slept
For motionless he lay
She rose & from the bed-side crept
With cautious step away
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