The Sun Has Set

Portrait of Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte 1818–1848

The sun has set, and the long grass now Waves dreamily in the evening wind; And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone In some warm nook a couch to find.

In all the lonely landscape round I see no light and hear no sound, Except the wind that far away Come sighing o'er the healthy sea.

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