Stanzas (Brontë-2)

Stanzas (Brontë-2) by Emily Brontë

From Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846) and reprinted in The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë (1908).

I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me,   There's nothing lovely here; And doubly will the dark world grieve me,   While thy heart suffers there. I'll not weep, because the summer's glory   Must always end in gloom; And, follow out the happiest story—   It closes with a tomb! And I am weary of the anguish   Increasing winters bear; Weary to watch the spirit languish   Through years of dead despair. So, if a tear, when thou art dying,   Should haply fall from me, It is but that my soul is sighing,   To go and rest with thee.