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EMILY BRONTE by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT SACRAMENTAL HURT THAT BRINGS / THE TERROR OF THE TRUTH OF THINGS
Last Line: BLACK SEA, AND CURVED UNCOUTH SEA-BITTEN SHORE.
Subject(s): BRONTE, EMILY (1818-1848); PAIN; TRUTH; SUFFERING; MISERY;

What sacramental hurt that brings
The terror of the truth of things
Had changed thee? Secret be it yet.
'T was thine, upon a headland set,
To view no isles of man's delight,
With lyric foam in rainbow flight,
But all a-swing, a-gleam, mid slow uproar,
Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore.



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