Poetry · 1846
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, first published in 1846, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Pilate’s Wife’s Dream
- Mementos
- The Wife’s Will
- Frances
- I — Gilbert: The Garden
- II — The Parlour
- III — The Welcome Home
- Life
- The Letter
- Regret
- Presentiment
- The Teacher’s Monologue
- Passion
- Preference
- Evening Solace
- Stanzas
- Parting
- Apostasy
- Winter Stores
- The Missionary
- Faith and Despondency
- Stars
- The Philosopher
- Remembrance
- A Death-Scene
- Song
- Anticipation
- The Prisoner
- Hope
- A Day Dream
- To Imagination
- How Clear She Shines
- Sympathy
- Plead for Me
- Death
- Honour’s Martyr
- Stanzas
- My Comforter
- The Old Stoic
- A Reminiscence
- The Arbour
- Home
- Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas
- The Penitent
- Music on Christmas Morning
- Stanzas
- If This Be All
- Memory
- To Cowper
- The Doubter’s Prayer
- A Word to the “Elect.”
- Past Days
- The Consolation
- Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
- Views of Life
- Appeal
- The Student’s Serenade
- The Captive Dove
- Self-Congratulation
- Selections from the Literary Remains of Ellis and Acton Bell
- I
- II — The Bluebell
- III
- The Night-Wind
- Love and Friendship
- The Elder’s Rebuke
- The Wanderer from the Fold
- Warning and Reply
- Last Words
- The Lady to Her Guitar
- The Two Children
- The Visionary
- Encouragement
- Stanzas
- Despondency
- A Prayer
- In Memory of a Happy Day in February
- Confidence
- Lines Written from Home
- The Narrow Way
- Domestic Peace
- The Three Guides. (First Published in Fraser’s Magazine.)
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About the authors
1816–1855 · Victorian
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, and grew up in the parsonage at Haworth with her sisters Emily and Anne and her brother Branwell, all of whom wrote from childhood. After years as a teacher and governess she published, with her sisters, the pseudonymous Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846). Jane Eyre (1847) was an immediate success; Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853) followed. She outlived all her siblings, married in 1854 and died the following year.
1818–1848 · Victorian
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, and spent almost all her life at Haworth parsonage. Apart from brief periods at school and as a teacher, and nine months in Brussels in 1842, she stayed at home, writing poetry — some of the finest of the century — and, with her sister Anne, the long imaginary saga of Gondal. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, appeared in December 1847 under the name Ellis Bell. She died of tuberculosis a year later, aged thirty.
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