I am continuing with my Victober Challenge. I have read Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and also My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell. I recommend both. We were also asked to read a poem from the Victorian Era. I decided on Night by Anne Bronte which I like:
Night by Anne Brone
I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.
And then a voice may meet my ear,
That death has silenced long ago;
And hope and rapture may appear
Instead of solitude and woe.
Cold in the grave for years has lain
The form it was my bliss to see;
And only dreams can bring again,
The darling of my heart to me.
What a beautiful poem. I never knew that Anne Bronte wrote poetry, too.
ReplyDeleteHi Lark, I really liked the poem too. It's so nice in recent years to see Anne Bronte getting her due.
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