BRONTE, Emily Jane (1818-48)

The symbol of the window as a frontier between life and death in Wuthering Heights. Purkiss, John. The World of the English Romantic Poets. London: Heinemann, 1982. (114)

The starry night shall comfort bring:
Go out upon the breezy moor,
Watch for a bird with sable wing
And beak and talons dropping gore.

It will perch on a heathy swell,
Against the light of the coming moon;
Then, poor wretch, thy misery tell:
Thou shalt have the wished-for boon.

Nov.,1838 (E12) p. 90, Poems, Emily Bronte