I Am The Only Being Whose Doom Poem by Emily Jane Brontë
I Am The Only Being Whose Doom
I am the only being whose doom
No tongue would ask no eye would mourn
I never caused a thought of gloom
A smile of joy since I was born
In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away
As friendless after eighteen years
As lone as on my natal day
There have been times I cannot hide
There have been times when this was drear
When my sad soul forgot its pride
And longed for one to love me here
But those were in the early glow
Of feelings since subdued by care
And they have died so long ago
I hardly now believe they were
First melted off the hope of youth
Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew
And then experience told me truth
In mortal bosoms never grew
'Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow servile insincere -
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there
Grief of a lonesome woman no one will like experience in life! A bitter truth is wonderfully expressed in this poem!
Wonderful & painful. I can relate. This poem is woefully underrated.
We cpllude in our own destruction. Brilliant and unexpected.
negativity breeds the negativity; corrupted all that's why I have to behave like that it's not the resolution of life; whatever nice to read the poem
This would be a PERFECT GCSE english literature piece to work to analyse-full of hidden juxtaposition that provokes thoughtful analysis. To all examining boards-please include this
It seemed the woman was forewarned she would only live a short life. It gives me chills up my spine.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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