Brontë Sisters Selected Poems

Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846, and their first work to ever go in print.

To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Bronte sisters adopted androgynous first names. Marked by profound sentiments, gravity and melodious harmony, the poems are strewn on the fields of soulful love, rueful reminiscence and the immortal yearnings of a Christian soul, and represent a fragrant assemblage of noetic flowers from the glebes of olden England.

For those not familiar with the Bronte sisters’ poetry, it should be noted that many of their poems were written in the context of their fictional, shared worlds of Gondal and Angria.

00 – Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell
01 – Pilate’s Wife’s Dream
02 – Faith and Despondency
03 – A Reminiscence
04 – Mementos
05 – Stars
06 – The Philosopher
07 – The Arbour
08 – Home
09 – The Wife’s Will
10 – Remembrance
11 – Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas
12 – The Wood
13 – A Death Scene
14 – Song
15 – The Penitent
16 – Music on Christmas Morning
17 – Frances
18 – Anticipation
19 – Stanzas
20 – Gilbert
21 – The Prisoner
22 – If this be all
23 – Life
24 – Hope
25 – Memory
26 – The Letter
27 – A Day-Dream
28 – To Cowper
29 – Regret
30 – To Imagination
31 – The Doubter’s Prayer
32 – Presentiment
33 – How clear she shines
34 – The Teacher’s Monologue
35 – Sympathy
36 – Past Days
37 – Passion
38 – Preference
39 – Plead for Me
40 – The Consolation
41 – Evening Solace
42 – Self-Interrogation
43 – Lines composed in a Wood on a Windy Day
44 – Stanzas
45 – Death
46 – Views of Life
47 – Parting
48 – Stanzas to
49 – Appeal
50 – Honour’s Martyr
51 – The Student’s Life
52 – Stanzas
53 – The Captive Dove
54 – Winter Stores
55 – My Comforter
56 – Self-Congratulation
57 – The Missionary
58 – The Old Stoic
59 – Fluctuations