Emily Brontë

Emily was a quiet child.

She did not like crowds
or busy town streets.

But on the open moors
she felt truly free.

She watched the clouds race.
She learned every bird call.

The wild places
were her happiest home.

Here, her mind could wander
as far as it wished.

Emily had brothers and sisters.

Together they made up stories.

With tiny homemade books,
they wrote in tiny writing.

Emily built an imaginary land.
She called it Gondal.

It had kings and queens,
prisons and stormy seas.

No one else could see it.
But to Emily, it was real.

Emily grew into a woman,
yet she stayed shy.

She wrote poems in secret.
She hid them away.

One day her sister found them.

"These are wonderful!" she cried.

Emily was upset at first.
Her words were private.

But slowly she agreed —
perhaps they could be shared.

Emily wrote a great book.

She called it Wuthering Heights.

It held wild love and anger,
ghosts and howling wind —
all the storms of the moor.

Many readers were shocked.
Some did not understand.

But Emily had been brave.

She poured her whole heart
onto the page,
and let it fly free.

Emily lived a short, quiet life.

She never grew famous
while she was alive.

But her words did not fade.

Today, readers all over the world
love her wild story
and her fierce, brave poems.

A shy girl from the moors
left a treasure
that still takes our breath away.