Quote#Poetry
All for myself the sigh would swell
Quote byAnne Brontë · 1820–1849
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: To Cowper (1842).
English (original)
All for myself the sigh would swell, The tear of anguish start; I little knew what wilder woe Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom, The days of misery; The long, long years of dark despair, That crushed and tortured thee.
— Anne Brontë
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