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PASSION (fragment)

I'll read my triumph in thine eyes,
Behold, and prove the change;
Then leave, perchance, my noble prize,

Once more in arms to range.

I'd die when all the foam is up,
The bright wine sparkling high;
Nor wait till in the exhausted cup
Life's dull dregs only lie.

Then Love thus crowned with sweet reward,
Hope blest with fulness large,

I'd mount the saddle, draw the sword,
And perish in the charge!

Escritora inglesa. English writer.
Nació en 1816 en Yorkshire en una familia de seis hermanos. Charlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire, 1816, the third
Su padre era rector de Haworth y al morir su madre fueron of six children.
enviadas a un horrible internado, allí enfermaron de Her father was rector at Haworth and, when her mother
tuberculosis y murieron dos de las hermanas. died, the children were sent to a horrible orphanage,
Además de Charlotte, Anne y Emily fueron escritoras. where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis.
Charlotte pasó un tiempo en un internado de Bruselas Apart from Charlotte, Anne and Emily were writers, too.
para aprender francés. Charlotte spent some time in a pensionnat in Brussels
En 1845 Charlotte y sus dos hermanas publicaron un libro to learn French.
con las poesías de las tres: Poemas por Currer, Ellis y In 1845, Charlotte and her two sisters published a book
Acton Bell, en 1846. with all their poems, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton
92 En 1847 Charlotte publicó la novela Jane Eyre, Bell, 1846.
de gran éxito.
In 1847, Chartlotte published the successful novel Jane Eyre.
Se casó en 1852 con el coadjutor de su padre y en marzo de She married her father's curate in 1852 and died of
1855, estando embarazada, enfermó y murió de tuberculosis. tuberculosis during her first pregnancy in 1855.