Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë Poems

Emily Brontë is a well-loved novelist and poet. She is remembered for the collection of poems she published along with her two sisters, Charlotte and Anne. Her best-known work is Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Little is known about her personal life due to her reclusive nature.  Read more about Emily Brontë.

Hope

by Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë uses figurative language, like metaphors, similes, and most importantly, personification, to describe what the feeling of hope is like in this poem.

Love and Friendship

by Emily Brontë

‘Love and Friendship’, by Emily Brontë, is a three-stanza poem that functions as a compare/contrast piece between “love and friendship.”

No Coward Soul Is Mine

by Emily Brontë

‘No Coward Soul Is Mine’ by Emily Brontë describes a speaker’s overwhelming passion for God and the strength she is able to draw from her faith. 

The Prisoner

by Emily Brontë

‘The Prisoner’ by Emily Brontë describes an interaction between the speaker, a prison warden, and a captive held within a dungeon crypt. 

The Visionary

by Emily Brontë

‘The Visionary’ by Emily Brontë describes the imminent arrival of an undefined, spirit-like presence to a house in the middle of winter. 

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