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Me Thinks This Heart Should Rest Awhile

By Emily Bronte

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Me thinks this heart should rest awhile     So stilly round the evening falls     The veiled sun sheds no parting smile     Nor mirth nor music wakes my Halls     I have sat lonely all the day     Watching the drizzly mist descend     And first conceal the hills in grey     And then along the valleys wend     And I have sat and watched the trees     And the sad flowers how drear they blow     Those flowers were formed to feel the breeze     Wave their light leaves in summer's glow     Yet their lives passed in gloomy woe     And hopeless comes its dark decline     And I lament because I know     That cold departure pictures mine

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About Emily Bronte

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet best known for "Wuthering Heights." Her poetry—intense, visionary, and often exploring themes of nature, death, and spiritual longing—was praised by critics after her early death at age 30.

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