Pilate’s Wife’s Dream (wiersz Charlotte Brontë)

Pilate’s Wife’s Dream – wiersz angielskiej powieściopisarki i poetki Charlotte Brontë w formie monologu dramatycznego, opublikowany w zbiorze Poems by Currer, Ellis, And Acton Bell w 1846. Podmiotem lirycznym jest wspomniana w Ewangelii żona Poncjusza Piłata. Utwór jest napisany sekstyną ababcc:

I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start

Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall–

The crash blent with my sleep, I saw depart

Its light, even as I woke, on yonder wall;

Over against my bed, there shone a gleam

Strange, faint, and mingling also with my dream.

It sunk, and I am wrapt in utter gloom;

How far is night advanced, and when will day

Retinge the dusk and livid air with bloom,

And fill this void with warm, creative ray?

Would I could sleep again till, clear and red,

Morning shall on the mountain-tops be spread!

Bibliografia

• Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë: Poems by Currer, Ellis, And Acton Bell. gutenberg.org. [dostęp 2017-04-21]. (ang.).

Linki zewnętrzne

• "Pilate's Wife's Dream." by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). digital.library.upenn.edu. [dostęp 2017-04-21]. (ang.).