All overgrown by cunning moss,    All interspersed with weed,    The little cage of ‘Currer Bell,’    In quiet Haworth laid.     This bird, observing others,    When frosts too sharp became,    Retire to…

Just lost when I was saved!    Just felt the world go by!    Just girt me for the onset with eternity,    When breath blew back,    And on the other side    I…

 I started early, took my dog,    And visited the sea;    The mermaids in the basement    Came out to look at me,     And frigates in the upper floor    Extended hempen…

 Bless God, he went as soldiers,    His musket on his breast;    Grant, God, he charge the bravest    Of all the martial blest.     Please God, might I behold him    In…

You left me, sweet, two legacies, —    A legacy of love    A Heavenly Father would content,    Had He the offer of;     You left me boundaries of pain    Capacious as…

Before the ice is in the pools,    Before the skaters go,    Or any cheek at nightfall    Is tarnished by the snow,     Before the fields have finished,    Before the Christmas…

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,    A travelling flake of snow    Across a barn or through a rut    Debates if it will go.     A narrow wind…

The morns are meeker than they were,    The nuts are getting brown;    The berry’s cheek is plumper,    The rose is out of town.     The maple wears a gayer…

Of bronze and blaze    The north, to-night!    So adequate its forms,    So preconcerted with itself,    So distant to alarms, —    An unconcern so sovereign    To universe, or me,    It paints my simple…

 Her final summer was it,    And yet we guessed it not;    If tenderer industriousness    Pervaded her, we thought     A further force of life    Developed from within, —    When Death lit…