Weary (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Here, in the silent churchyard, 'mid a thousand dead, alone, Weary I sit for a moment clasping this cross of ...
Here, in the silent churchyard, 'mid a thousand dead, alone, Weary I sit for a moment clasping this cross of ...
Within a vale, each infant year, When earliest larks first carol free,To humble shepherds cloth appear ...
Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love;For how should I be loved as I love thee?-I, graceless, joyless, ...
HEAVY with cares no winnowing hand could sift,Wrapt in a sadness never to be told,As o'er the fields and through ...
Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfallAbout thy face; her sweet hands round thy headIn gracious fostering union garlanded;Her tremulous ...
These tear-stained flowers of a poet's mind, Culled from my bosom, lay it wholly bare; My heart's a garden: Love ...
I woke at night in my eternal tombThe desert sands had hid a thousand years,And heard the Nile-crier across the ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches, repeats old ...
Too many readings of this holy scripture focus on the sheep the calling of the flock the judgment of the ...
Buckets and buckets of sap, culled from willing maples pouring into the vat the cauldron atop the old, crumbling outdoor ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
To the tune "Courtyard Filled with Fragrance" Fragrant grass beside the pond green shade over the hall a clear cold ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
Within a vale, each infant year, When earliest larks first carol free, To humble shepherds cloth appear A wondrous maiden, ...
Let ancient stories round the painter's art, Who stole from many a maid his Venus' charms, Till warm devotion fired ...
WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid, And in long raiment wondrously arrayed, She may take pleasure with ...
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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