Silent is the house: all are laid asleep: One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep, Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze That whirls the ‘wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.
ATTRIBUTION:
Emily Brontė (1818–1848), British poet, novelist. The Visionary (l. 1–5). . .
Attributed to “Ellis Bell” (pseud.) New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.
