The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But
a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant
trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow, And the
storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond
clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear
can move me; I will not, cannot go. I have to confess that I
have always been fascinated by the Bronte sisters. Emily Brontë
was born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford in
Yorkshire, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë. She was the
younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six
children. She did not live to be very old, dying of tuberculosis
when she was only 30 years old. The Bronte family were a
nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village
of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The
sisters, Charlotte, Emily , and Anne, are well known as poets
and novelists. They originally published their poems and novels
under masculine pseudonyms, following the cu