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Complete Poems

Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrote poems throughout her short life, many of them published under various pen names. All her known surviving poems are collected here.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (2 hr 33 min)

Chapters

Introduction by Charlotte Brontë

2:34

The Captain's Dream

2:37

The North Wind

3:10

The Parting

2:09

The Parting

2:18

Verses to a Child

3:05

Self-Congratulation

2:33

The Bluebell

2:09

An Orphan's Lament

2:19

Lines Written at Thorp Green

1:28

Appeal

0:42

Despondency

1:54

To Cowper

2:40

In Memory of a Happy Day in February

2:25

Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

1:00

A Word to the "Elect"

2:38

The Doubter's Prayer

3:07

The Captive Dove

1:49

The Consolation

2:23

Past Days

2:39

The Student's Serenade

2:33

A Reminiscence

1:07

Memory

3:10

Fluctuations

2:04

A Prayer

1:09

The Dungeon

2:50

Home

1:24

Call Me Away

3:21

Night

0:45

Dreams

2:03

If This Be All

1:49

Confidence

1:24

Views of Life

8:50

Song

1:18

Song

2:31

Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas

3:18

Stanzas

1:34

The Penitent

1:00

The Arbour

1:42

Music on Christmas Morning

2:11

There let thy bleeding branch atone

0:56

Oh, they have robbed me of the hope

1:00

Domestic Peace

1:33

Mirth and Mourning

3:25

Weep not too much, my darling

3:39

The Power of Love

3:56

I Dreamt Last Night

7:13

The Lover

2:50

Severed and Gone

3:56

The Three Guides

10:45

Farewell to thee!

1:34

Self-Communion

15:45

The Narrow Way

1:47

Fragment

0:36

Last Lines

2:26