Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day by Anne Brontë





 Lines Composed In A Wood On A Windy Day  is a poem by poet Anne Brontë, written on December 30, 1842. It was first published in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, May 1846.

' Lines Composed In A Wood On A Windy Day '
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring

And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;

For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,

Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

The long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing,

The bare trees are tossing their branches on high;

The dead leaves beneath them are merrily dancing,

The white clouds are scudding across the blue sky.

I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing

The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray;

I wish I could see how its proud waves are dashing,

And hear the wild roar of their thunder to-day!