The following poem is short and rather simple, but requires some background information. If you haven't read the novel (but have perhaps seen TV adaptations or something), or if you want analysis or reason for the poem, read the Post Script (P.S) that follows

The lightning has shattered the tall oak tree

An apt dedication to our unity

Where bolts of hot reality

Cause hopes of untroubled love

To fracture, and so die

As I see, in the shimmering wells of your eyes

Glimmering memories of exotic beauties

That soared through hot eastern skies

I fear your love

Is a deluded feign,

As you scan the red horizons,

In vain

For me to soar through them too

P.S

The poem is a reference to the power struggles in the book as Rochester and Jane enter into their relationship.

In Chapter 24 Rochester makes references to the women he is used to, i.e exotic, alluring, rather promiscuous beauties. Jane consequentially fears that he sees her in the same image and that he is deluding himself into seeing her as an equivalent. Jane is quoted as saying "I will not be your English Celine Varens", i.e that she does not want to live up to the unfairly high expectations he has of her as a wife.