I will begin by saying Anne was the truest poet of the three "Bell" sisters, but Emily did a fine and haunting job of setting a scene with her verse. I enjoyed this book immensely. I recommend it to anyone sitting down to a chilly, grey afternoon with a cup of hot cocoa. 
 It's fabulous! 
 She YEARNED for home when she wasn't there...and begged it to hold her when she was. Emily Bronte was amazing. 
 We have to put our best guess for a date that we first read these books. I received it as a Christmas present in December 2007 and devoured it immediately. I'd read many of these poems in the back of Charlotte's The Professor (one of the earlier editions) and other places, and I've read bits and pieces of this compilation over and over since Jan. '07, but, the initial "read" is set... What I want to say is you can come back to these poems again and again and again and again and...