Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Emily Brontë (18181848)The Old Stoic
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And Love I laugh to scorn;
And lust of fame was but a dream,
That vanished with the morn:
That moves my lips for me
Is, ‘Leave the heart that now I bear,
And give me liberty!’
’Tis all that I implore;
In life and death, a chainless soul,
With courage to endure.