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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. V. The Old Stoic

Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

RICHES I hold in light esteem,

And Love I laugh to scorn;

And lust of fame was but a dream,

That vanished with the morn:

And if I pray, the only prayer

That moves my lips for me

Is, “Leave the heart that now I bear,

And give me liberty!”

Yes, as my swift days near their goal,

’Tis all that I implore;

In life and death, a chainless soul,

With courage to endure.