English Poetry. Louise Imogen Guiney. Emily Brontë. Луиза Имоджен Гвини.

Louise Imogen Guiney (Луиза Имоджен Гвини)

Emily Brontë

What sacramental hurt that brings
The terror of the truth of things,
Had changed thee? Secret be it yet.
’Twas thine, upon a headland set,
To view no isles of man’s delight
With lyric foam in rainbow flight,
But all a-swing, a-gleam, mid slow uproar,
Black sea, and curved uncouth sea-bitten shore.

Louise Imogen Guiney’s other poems:

1. Undertones at Magdalen
2. On Leaving Winchester
3. On First Entering Westminster Abbey
4. In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
5. In a Perpendicular Church

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