Collection of poems : autograph manuscript signed : [Haworth]
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969
And down the park’s smooth winding road,
He urged its flying speed,
Still by the door the his lady stood,
And watched his rapid flight,
Until he came to a distant wood,
That hid him from her sight,
But ere he vanished from her view,
He waved to her a last adieu,
Then onward hastily he steered,
And in the forest disappeared.
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His The lady smiled a pensive smile,
And heaved a gentle sigh,
But her cheek was all unblanched the while,
And tearless was her eye,
“A thousand lovely flowers,” she said
Are smiling on the plain,
And ere one half of them are dead,
My lord will come again,
The leaves are waving fresh and green,
“The Parting” (pp. 5–8)
Composed 9 July 1838, when Brontë was eighteen. Written in the voice of Alexandrina Zenobia. First published in Poems (1902), pp. 189–91. Poem 6 in Chitham (1979); pp. 457–59 in Alexander (2010).