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Brontë Trilogy

Song Cycle

1. I Cannot Go  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow,
And the storm is fast descending
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds upon clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes here below
But nothing here can move me;
I cannot, I will not go.

Text Authorship:

  • by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), "The night is darkening round me", appears in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Now for the First Time Printed, first published 1902

Set by Ruth Morris Gray , copyright © 2025 [ chorus and piano ], Heritage Music Press

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Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago
Total word count: 67
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