Share this page: Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity. -- "Oh, For the Time When I Shall Sleep" No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. -- "No coward soul is mine" (1846) Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts: unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds. -- "No coward soul is mine" (1846), last lines Oh dreadful is the check—intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think agam; The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain! -- "The Prisoner" (1846) Sweet Love of youth, forgive if I forget thee While the World's tide is bearing me along: Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure but cannot do thee wrong. -- "Remembrance" (1846) He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbours. -- Wuthering Heights, 5 My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter chnages the trees -- My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath -- a source of little visible delight, but necessary. -- Wuthering Heights, 9 I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth, -- Wuthering Heights, last lines Share this page:

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