The Night is Darkening round Me

The Night is Darkening round Me

Original Text
Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë, ed. Clement Shorter, collected by C. W. Hatfield (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923): 74. PR 4172 A1 1923 Robarts Library
1THE night is darkening round me,
2    The wild winds coldly blow ;
3But a tyrant spell has bound me,
4    And I cannot, cannot go.
5The giant trees are bending
6    Their bare boughs weighed with snow ;
7The storm is fast descending,
8    And yet I cannot go.
9Clouds beyond clouds above me,
10    Wastes beyond wastes below ;
11But nothing drear can move me :
12    I will not, cannot go.
Publication Start Year
1923
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1996-2000.
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