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THE CAGED BIRD by EMILY JANE BRONTE

Poet Analysis

First Line: AND LIKE MYSELF LONE, WHOLLY LONE
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; LONELINESS;
And like myself alone, wholly alone,
It sees the day's long sunshine glow;
And like myself it makes its moan
In unexhausted woe.


Give we the hills our equal prayer;
Earth's breezy hills and heaven's blue sea;
We ask for nothing further here
But our own hearts, the joy of liberty.


Could my hand unlock the chain,
How gladly would I watch it soar,
And never regret, and never co




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