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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REDBREAST EARLY IN THE MORNING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
Redbreast, early in the morning
Dank and cold and cloudy grey,
Wildly tender is thy music,
Chasing angry thought away.
My heart is not enraptured now,
My eyes are full of tears,
And constant sorrow on my brow
Has done the work of years.
It was not hope that wrecked at once
The spirit's calm in storm,
But a long life of solitude,
Hopes quenched and rising thoughts subdued,
A bleak November's calm.
What woke it then? A little child
Strayed from its father's cottage door,
And in the hour of moonlight wild
Laid lonely on the desert moor.
I heard it then, you heard it too,
And seraph sweet it sang to you;
But like the shriek of misery
That wild, wild music wailed to me.
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