Poem by Emily Jane Brontë

The Lady to Her Guitar

For him who struck thy foreign string,
I ween this heart has ceased to care;
Then why dost thou such feelings bring
To my sad spirit—old Guitar?

It is as if the warm sunlight
In some deep glen should lingering stay,
When clouds of storm, or shades of night,
Have wrapt the parent orb away.

It is as if the glassy brook
Should image still its willows fair,
Though years ago the woodman's stroke
Laid low in dust their Dryad-hair.

Even so, Guitar, thy magic tone
Hath moved the tear and waked the sigh;
Hath bid the ancient torrent moan,
Although its very source is dry. 

1. I See Around Me Tombstones Grey
2. The Wind Was Rough Which Tore
3. High Waving Heather 'Neath Stormy Blasts Bending
4. Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
5. The Visionary

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