Read "Self-Interogation. Ellis Bell" by Charlotte Brontë online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"The evening passes fast away. / 'Tis almost time to rest; / What thoughts has left the vanished day, / What feelings in thy breast?
"The vanished day? It leaves a sense / Of labour hardly done; / Of little gained with vast expense -- / A sense of grief alone?