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Lines Written At Thorp Green

By Anne Bronte

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That summer sun, whose genial glow     Now cheers my drooping spirit so     Must cold and distant be,     And only light our northern clime     With feeble ray, before the time     I long so much to see.     And this soft whispering breeze that now     So gently cools my fevered brow,     This too, alas, must turn     To a wild blast whose icy dart     Pierces and chills me to the heart,     Before I cease to mourn.     And these bright flowers I love so well,     Verbena, rose and sweet bluebell,     Must droop and die away.     Those thick green leaves with all their shade     And rustling music, they must fade     And every one decay.     But if the sunny summer time     And woods and meadows in their prime     Are sweet to them that roam     Far sweeter is the winter bare     With long dark nights and landscapes drear     To them that are at Home!

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Anne Brontë (1820–1849) was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters and the author of "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," one of the first sustained feminist novels in English. Her poetry explores faith, nature, and the condition of women.

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