Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë was born July 30, 1818 at Thornton in Yorkshire, the fifth of six children. Both her parents had literary inclinations. The Reverend Patrick Brontë published two

How loud the storm sounds round the Hall!

by Emily Brontë (1818–48)

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How loud the storm sounds round the Hall!

From arch to arch, from door to door,

Pillar and roof and granite wall

Rock like a cradle in its roar.

That elm tree by the haunted well

Greets no returning summer skies:

Down with a rush the giant fell,

And stretched athwart the path it lies.

Hardly had passed the funeral train,

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