The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. When, through the mist of years receding, Our own sharp griefs and wild sensations, Then in our souls there seems to languishĪnd thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish,Īnd feelings, once as strong as passions,
When, soft as birds their pinions closing, While, lost in Fame’s or Wealth’s illusion, The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Many of Charlotte Brontë’s poems, like those of her sister Emily, betray the influence of Romanticism, with its emphasis on the poet’s own personality and emotions this poem, which we’ll use as the conclusion to this pick of Charlotte Brontë’s best poems, is a fine example of just how much Charlotte learned from her Romantic forebears and how much she could make it her own: Lapsed among moors, ere life’s first primeįollow the link above to read the longer, full poem. In this poem, Charlotte Brontë’s teacher-speaker laments the fact that she is getting older and is still stuck in a profession she has no real love for. Later, back at Haworth, the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Charlotte Brontë gave up her own schooling in order to teach her younger sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, although a few years later she returned to the profession as a governess.
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