“Mild the Mist Upon the Hill” is a poem by the English writer Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848). In this poem the speaker describes nature’s stillness after a day of rain while they image what it would feel like to be a child again. Read an analysis of the poem at PoemAnalysis.
“Mild the Mist Upon the Hill” is taken from the book “The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë” which was published after Emily’s death.
The album art is a painting by the French impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840 – 1926).
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Mild the mist upon the hill
By Emily Brontë
Mild the mist upon the hill
Telling not of storms tomorrow;
No, the day has wept its fill,
Spent its store of silent sorrow.
O, I’m gone back to the days of youth,
I am a child once more,
And ‘neath my father’s sheltering roof
And near the old hall door
I watch this cloudy evening fall
After a day of rain;
Blue mists, sweet mists of summer pall
The horizon’s mountain chain.
The damp stands on the long green grass
As thick as morning’s tears,
And dreamy scents of fragrance pass
That breathe of other years.
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) was a British writer known for penning the classic novel “Wuthering Heights” (1847). The novel received mixed reviews when it was published but is now considered one of the finest novels in English literature. “Wuthering Heights” is the only novel Emily wrote.
Together with her sisters Anne and Charlotte, also famous writers, she published a collection of poetry called “The Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”. The sisters used male pseudonyms.
Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis at the age of 30 in 1848.
