| J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921. | | | | Speak of the North! | | By Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) |
| | | SPEAK of the North! A lonely moor | |
| Silent and dark and trackless swells, | |
| The waves of some wild streamlet pour | |
| Hurriedly through its ferny dells. | |
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| Profoundly still the twilight air, | 5 |
| Lifeless the landscape; so we deem, | |
| Till like a phantom gliding near | |
| A stag bends down to drink the stream. | |
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| And far away a mountain zone, | |
| A cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies, | 10 |
| And one star, large and soft and lone, | |
| Silently lights the unclouded skies. | | | | |
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