We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Brontë

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Topic

Aging Youth Impermanence Effects of time

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

We wove a web in childhood

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. "We wove a web in childhood." 1835.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. "From 'Retrospection.'" Brontës: Selected Poems, edited by Pamela Norris. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.

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