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 ...
Madge Linsey at the well raised the deep waters, Brimmed her brass bucket full, went from her place. Loose hung ...
Young Dermod stood by his mother's side,And he spake right stern and cold;"Now, why do you weep and wail," he ...
You were very fair to meet once, Marie, With your eyes like some blue hiding flower, Now where the sun ...
Who knocks at the Geraldine's door to-night In the black storm and the rain? With the thunder crash and the ...
In the springtime once I wandered 'mid fair flowers of golden hue; Wonder-eyed I gazed around me in those fields ...
A beggar sat by the King's highway, O, but the road was long! His hair was black and his beard ...
This is an evil night to go, my sister, To the thorn-tree across the fairy rath, Will you not wait ...
White feet half hid in violets, small hands in a burden fair, A burden of Spring's first blossoms she wove ...
In every man this world doth hold Two selves are cast in that human mould. If he hearken but to ...
'Twas on a gloomy afternoon When all the world was out of tune, And lover's lot amiss, When Chloe, waiting ...
Do you hunt alone to-day, O Red Richard! Pray you tell me, do you hunt all your lone? "Ay, I ...
Heaven help your home to-night,MacCormac; for I knowA white witch woman is your bride:You married for your woe.You thought her ...
Where have you been, my pale, pale son, all night in the winter storm? (Hark! the joy bells chime in ...
Who was stealing the Baron's wine, Golden sherry and port so old, Precious, I wot, as drops of gold? Lone ...
The careless lad went through the wood, Leaped the retarding gate, And whistled thrice unto his dog, Who strayed behind ...
O the chatter, chatter, chatter, Of the things that do not matter. Little wordy things that clatter, Restless feet that ...
A miller's daughter, as I heard tell- Sing heigh! but the maid was merry- Was loved by her father's man ...
A Legend of Tyrol I through the valley of Klausen went By a little stream, and heard it sigh, Down ...
The Virgin speaks Draw back the starry curtains of the night, O Cherubim, and Seraphim! Pull back the purple curtains ...
See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard; With frowning brow, and far and absent gaze, On his bowed head ...
TA'N SIONAC AR SRAIDIB AG FAIRE GO CAOCRAC Loud shout the flaming tongues of war. The cannon's thunder rolls afar ...
Out from her doorway peeped the little maid To gaze upon the world most full of glee. Her eager eyes ...
Lo! I am athirst, said the brown earth, "And I would drink my fill." "Have I not slaked thee," cried ...
What ails you that you look so pale, O fisher of the sea? "'Tis for a mournful tale I own, ...
A CHILD'S SONG I wish I had a soldier, a soldier, a soldier, I wish I had a ...
Many worlds have I made, said the Good God, "But this is best of all," He slipped the round earth ...
I, like a moth to the candle, Am chained by a glance from your eye. If I shun you, the ...
Before my time my kindred were As felons in their land, Because they claimed the liberty That freemen understand. Ere ...
My darling laughed in the dawning, And the birds perched low to hear. The quick sprung anew from dead ashes ...
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