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by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)

The Night Wind
Language: English 
There it is!
It wakes tonight sweet thoughts that will not die
And feelings' fires flash all as bright as in the years gone by!
I can tell by thine altered cheek, by thy kindled gaze,
And by the words thou scarce do speak
How wildly fancy plays.

I could swear the glorious wind has swept the world aside
has dashed its memory from thy mind
Like foambells from the tide

And thou art now a spirit pouring
Thy presence into all
The essence of the tempest's roaring,
And of the tempest's fall

A universal influence
Free from thy control
A principle of life intense,
Sweeping from pole, to pole.

Text 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 John Mitchell (b. 1941), "The Night Wind", op. 17 no. 8 (1976), from Visions from the Earth, no. 8. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: Victoria Brago

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 110

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