The Me Within Thee Blind! (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
I At the convent doors, full of alarm She stood, like a young bird quitting its nest. Her first flight ...
I At the convent doors, full of alarm She stood, like a young bird quitting its nest. Her first flight ...
A LEGEND OF GLENDALOUGH It was the bride of Colman Dhu In Glendalough sat down, She hushed the babe upon ...
Young Dermod stood by his mother's side,And he spake right stern and cold;"Now, why do you weep and wail," he ...
Woe to the House of Breffni, and to Red O'Ruark woe! Woe to us all in Erinn for the shame ...
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
This is the scene of a man's despair, and a soul's release From the difficult traits of the flesh; so, ...
'Twas on a gloomy afternoon When all the world was out of tune, And lover's lot amiss, When Chloe, waiting ...
It dawned a morn to make a heart despair, East was the wind and chill the April air. No beast ...
Golden-throated, hath God sent thee for our comfort in the city? Sweet, sweet! singing, singing all the day. I said ...
With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer, 'Tis his step upon the threshold; "what is it brings ...
And so goodbye, my love, my dear, and so goodbye, E'en thus from my sad heart go hence, depart; I ...
When I was a young lad of happy sixteen There came to my window the Cushla-mo chree, And the song ...
All on a golden morning the beggar maid did go To gather branch and berry, the hazel-nut and sloe. And ...
Out from her doorway peeped the little maid To gaze upon the world most full of glee. Her eager eyes ...
I drew her out of the wave High up on the windy shore. Oh, never a fish I caught So ...
The world has many lovers, but the one She loves the best is he within whose heart She but half-reigning ...
Sick I am and sorrowful, how can I be well again Here, where fog and darkness is, and big guns ...
I left my home for travelling; Because I heard the strange birds sing In foreign skies, and felt their wing ...
Last eve as I leaned from my lattice, looked out at the night Where the grey of the sea misted ...
Give me the heavy sleep, the dreamless slumber Nor shrouded grief nor sorrow will encumber. Let me but sleep as ...
The earth-bound giant now is free, is free; The last fight over, and the last moan still; No ...
Gormlaith, wife of Niall Glundu, Happy was your dream that night, Dreamt you woke in sudden fright, Niall of Ulster ...
I crave of you pardon to-day, Yesterday I was mad when I spoke; But the dream of our friendship was ...
O were my heart a little dog I'd call it to my side To hold it with a silken lead ...
'Twas the dream of a God,And the mould of His hand,That you shook 'neath His stroke,That you trembled and brokeTo ...
Oh! do not rudely wake her, nor reproach Those pulsing limbs for this hostility To timid life, that cast in ...
Leave me my dreams, and I shall not repine; Youth's eager hours, love's restless holiday. Leave me my dreams, a ...
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