by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Why do I hate that lone green dell?
Language: English
Why do I hate that lone green dell? Buried in moors and mountains wild That is a place I had loved [so]1 well Had I but seen it [as]2 a child [...]3 The earth shone round with a long lost charm Alas I forgot I was not the same Before a day an hour passed by My spirit knew itself once more I saw the gilded vapours fly And leave me as I was before
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View original text (without footnotes)Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Catherine
1 Bronte: "too"
2 Bronte: "when"
3 lines 5-14 omitted by Fisk
Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) [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 , "Why do I hate that lone green dell?", published 2002 [voice, piano], from Wuthering Heights, no. 18. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk
This text was added to the website: 2004-03-22
Line count: 11
Word count: 75