Author:Emily Jane Brontë/Index of Titles
A
[edit]- 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
B
[edit]- 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
C
[edit]- *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)
D
[edit]- 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)
E
[edit]- 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
F
[edit]- 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- Far, far is mirth withdrawn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")
G
[edit]- 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)
H
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
L
[edit]- *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)
M
[edit]- 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)
N
[edit]- *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
[edit]- 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
P
[edit]- 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)
R
[edit]- 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
S
[edit]- 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)
T
[edit]- 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)
U
[edit]- *Upon her soothing breast (compare "Heaven's glory shone where he was laid")
V
[edit]- The Visionary (Silent is the house: all are laid asleep)
W
[edit]- 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
Y
[edit]Notes
[edit]*Titles from Brontë Poems: Selections from the poetry of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë (1915)