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Charlotte Bronte, Student.(Poetry)(Poem)

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From: The Women's Review of Books
Date: 20061101
Author:Potos, Andrea

 
Charlotte Bronte, Student 
Roe Head School, 1831 
 
   When I arrived, they eyed me queerly, 
   these daughters of wealthy locals. 
   Oh, I could not blame them--me with 
   spectacles and old woman's dress, 
   unmistakable tinge of Irish on my tongue. 
 
   I offered them poetry, my zeal 
   for drawing, those subjects most females 
   are not given to learn" 
   geography, history, grammar, 
   French verbs; 
   such copious, joyful copying 
   of classical heads and hands! 
 
   Papa says I must meet my future armed. 
   I memorize Mangall's Historical 
   and Miscellaneous ...

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