Poem of the Day: ‘Spellbound’

Today’s poem hints at Emily Brontë’s intensity of feeling for the wind-scoured harshness of the natural world that surrounded her.

'Scenes and Incidents from the Recent Terrible Blizzard in Dakota,' detail,
Frank Leslie's Weekly, January 28, 1888. — 'Scenes and Incidents from the Recent Terrible Blizzard in Dakota,' detail, Frank Leslie's Weekly, January 28, 1888. Via Wikimedia Commons

EDITED BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

Jan 17, 2023, 04:54 AM ET