“And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.”
Stanza vi.
A Little While, a Little While (1846)
Context: Still, as I mused, the naked room,
The alien firelight died away;
And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright, unclouded day.
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Emily Brontë 151
English novelist and poet 1818–1848Related quotes

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Examples of self-translation (c. 2004)

“Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.”
Centennial Ode. Stanza 22, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.”
Source: Elegies, Line 985.