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"Lines" is a poem written by English writer Emily Brontë (1818–1848) in December 1837. It is understood that the poem was written in the Haworth parsonage, two years after Brontë had left Roe Head, where she was unable to settle as a pupil. At that time, she had already lived through the death of her mother and two of her sisters.
A Death-Scene; A Little While; Come hither child; Remembrance; Day Dream; F. De Samara to A. G. A. Hope (ballad) How Clear She Shines; Heavy hangs the raindrop; Lines; Lines (Far away is the land of rest) My Comforter; My Lady's Grave; Death; No Coward Soul is Mine; The Old Stoic; Self Interrogation; Shall earth no more inspire thee; Song for A ...
The poem appears to be a Gondal poem from the writing style, but there is nothing in the poem to confirm this theory. The narrator is an anonymous woman. There is no known character by the name of Edward in the Gondal Saga, and the one vague reference to "Arden's lake" is unhelpful because it is not a known place in either the Gondal world or the Glass Town Confederacy.
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Title page of the first edition, 1846 Authors Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë Language English Publication place United Kingdom Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a book of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work in print. To evade ...
She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
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The title of the poem makes reference to two characters from Emily's imaginary childhood island of Gondal, a place which she invented and wrote short stories about along with her younger sister Anne. Gondal was a kingdom ruled by the powerful Queen, Augusta Almeda, to whom the poem is written, from another character, Fernando De Samara.
The context in which this poem was written suggests that Emily Brontë attempted to cope with her sister's illness by falling back into the fantasy world they had created together. Brontë describes the snow as a "transient voyager of heaven" and "angel like," suggesting that she sees the snow as coming directly from God .