I paused on the threshold
I turned to the sky
I looked to the heavens
And the dark mountains round

The full moon shone bright
Through that ocean on high
And the wind murmured past
With a wild eerie sound

And I entered the walls
Of my dark prison house
Mysterious it rose
From the billowy moor

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Lockwood

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Terry Fisk , "I paused on the threshold ", published 2002, from Wuthering Heights, no. 1. [
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Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk

This text was added to the website: 2004-02-05
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