“The Heart which cannot know another”

While Branwell composed the previous section of [Angria and the Angrians], he also composed the five following verse fragments, on three leaves, all of which have on the verso part of the draft of his letter to the Royal Academy enquiring about admission—see Barker Brontës, 226-27. The Heart which cannot know another Which owns no lover freind or brother In whom those names without reply Unechoed and unheeded die ¹