And like myself alone, wholly alone

And like myself alone, wholly alone,
It sees the day's long sunshine glow;
And like myself it makes its moan
In unexhausted woe.

Give we the hills our equal prayer;
Earth's breezy hills and heaven's blue sea;
We ask for nothing further here
But our own hearts, the joy of liberty.

Could my hand unlock the chain,
How gladly would I watch it soar,
And never regret, and never complain
To see its shining eyes no more.

by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) , no title, from The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, published 1910

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by John Joubert (1927-) , "Caged Bird", published 1971 [high voice and piano], from Six Poems of Emily Brontë, no. ?
by John Mitchell (1941-) , "The caged bird", op. 24 no. 13 (1977), from The Earth, the Wind, and the Sky, no. 13.

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