Dec. 19：Emily Brontë

• 艾米莉·勃朗特
  艾米莉·珍·勃朗特（英語：Emily Jane Brontë，1818年7月30日－1848年12月19日），19世紀英國作家與詩人，著名的勃朗特三姐妹之二，世界文學名著《咆哮山莊》的作者，而且這其實也是她一生中唯一一部小說。 艾米莉·勃朗特出生在約克郡靠近布拉德福的索頓，雙親為派屈克·勃朗特（Patrick

"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
--Heathcliff from WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847)

Emily Jane Brontë died in Haworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England on this day in 1848 (aged 30).

"I Am The Only Being Whose Doom" by Emily Brontë

I am the only being whose doom
No tongue would ask no eye would mourn
I never caused a thought of gloom
A smile of joy since I was born

In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away
As friendless after eighteen years
As lone as on my natal day

There have been times I cannot hide
There have been times when this was drear
When my sad soul forgot its pride
And longed for one to love me here

But those were in the early glow
Of feelings since subdued by care
And they have died so long ago
I hardly now believe they were

First melted off the hope of youth
Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew
And then experience told me truth
In mortal bosoms never grew

'Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow servile insincere -
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there

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Poems: Bronte contains poems that demonstrate a sensibility elemental in its force with an imaginative discipline and flexibility of the highest order. Also included are an Editor’s Note and an index of first lines. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/emily-bronte-poems-by…/