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 ...
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 ...
In the springtime once I wandered 'mid fair flowers of golden hue; Wonder-eyed I gazed around me in those fields ...
A BALLAD OF SORROW "Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! arise and let me in; Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! will you awake?" ...
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 ...
Where have you been, my pale, pale son, all night in the winter storm? (Hark! the joy bells chime in ...
And so goodbye, my love, my dear, and so goodbye, E'en thus from my sad heart go hence, depart; I ...
On the lone height of some untrodden hill The shadowy mother goes, Calling, calling; Grief hath her eyes, her cheek ...
See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard; With frowning brow, and far and absent gaze, On his bowed head ...
Sweet Content, at the rich man's gate, Called, "Wilt thou let me in?" "No! thou art poor and thou art ...
What ails you that you look so pale, O fisher of the sea? "'Tis for a mournful tale I own, ...
One spring as I went walking By budding leaf and thorn To see the sun a-shining Upon an Easter morn; ...
Sing a song for Evaleen, only two years old, Running laughing on life's path in her wilful way; Christ-Child, Whom ...
Here, in the silent churchyard, 'mid a thousand dead, alone, Weary I sit for a moment clasping this cross of ...
I, like a moth to the candle, Am chained by a glance from your eye. If I shun you, the ...
I saw her many years ago, my gladness and my grief. She stood amongst the barley fields to bind the ...
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 ...
Go not to the hills of ErinWhen the night winds are about,Put up your bar and shutter,And so keep the ...
Halt, who goes there? "'Tis for the new-born king, In long processions see what gifts we bring. Here cometh Care ...
Lord! when they came and stood upon my way, With "One is dead," I paused awhile to pray, In brief ...
The World were a place to play in, said the children, "The playground of the present; all that is have ...
Thou shalt feel no more the wind on thy wing, Nor float on the breath of the breeze; Thou shalt ...
Sitting alone in my room, Alone in the gathering gloom, Solitude in the rest of the tomb. While the drip, ...
I want to talk to thee of many thingsOr sit in silence when the robin singsHis littl' song, when comes ...
Beside my window sighs the last lone rose, Saying, 'Alas! farewell! Youth's all but dead.' Like some sweet spirit waiting ...
When first you came to London Town, Donneen, Just five years old, I said-"He'll ask for marble halls, and streets ...
Lift me up from this bed of sickness;I am going out to meet the summer.I will run into the arms ...
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