If grief for grief can touch thee
If answering woe for woe
If any ruth can melt thee
Come to me now

I cannot be more lonely
More drear I cannot be
My worn heart throbs so wildly
'Twill break for thee

And when the world despises
When heaven repels my prayer
Will not my angel comfort?
Mine idol hear?

Yes by the tears I've poured
By all my hours of pain
Oh I will surely win thee
Beloved, again

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

Text Authorship:

• by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), no title, appears in Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Now for the First Time Printed, first published 1902 [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 , "If grief for grief can touch thee", published 2002 [voice, piano], from Wuthering Heights, no. 6. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Joan Littlejohn (b. 1937), "If grief for grief can touch thee", 1967-71, first performed 1972 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from The Heights of Haworth [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Rudolph T. Werther (1896 - 1986), "The appeal", 1945-70. [voice, piano] [
   text not verified 
  ]

Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk

This text was added to the website: 2004-03-20
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Word count: 80