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 ...
A TRUE STORYI I am a man who hath known trouble, O'Ruarc of the Lake. On my life's glass joy ...
A LEGEND OF GLENDALOUGH It was the bride of Colman Dhu In Glendalough sat down, She hushed the babe upon ...
Going, going! the voice was loud, And, rising, silenced the chattering crowd. "Going! going! shall it be gone?" The auctioneer ...
In the springtime once I wandered 'mid fair flowers of golden hue; Wonder-eyed I gazed around me in those fields ...
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
You were very fair to meet once, Marie, With your eyes like some blue hiding flower, Now where the sun ...
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 ...
Heaven help your home to-night,MacCormac; for I knowA white witch woman is your bride:You married for your woe.You thought her ...
It dawned a morn to make a heart despair, East was the wind and chill the April air. No beast ...
Where have you been, my pale, pale son, all night in the winter storm? (Hark! the joy bells chime in ...
Golden-throated, hath God sent thee for our comfort in the city? Sweet, sweet! singing, singing all the day. I said ...
There are six sorrows in my heart- Red Allen, Clare, and Joan, Sweet Bet, and Jock, and little Roy; Six ...
When I was a young lad of happy sixteen There came to my window the Cushla-mo chree, And the song ...
A Legend of Tyrol I through the valley of Klausen went By a little stream, and heard it sigh, Down ...
O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine,When the winds are out and calling to this ...
Out from her doorway peeped the little maid To gaze upon the world most full of glee. Her eager eyes ...
What ails you that you look so pale, O fisher of the sea? "'Tis for a mournful tale I own, ...
She had hair gold as her father's corn; She tripped and sung, Like to a little lamb new-born, So gay, ...
Sing a song for Evaleen, only two years old, Running laughing on life's path in her wilful way; Christ-Child, Whom ...
What we must do and may not do. This is the World's whole refrain, Till beating on the wearied brain, ...
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 ...
Give me the heavy sleep, the dreamless slumber Nor shrouded grief nor sorrow will encumber. Let me but sleep as ...
Ach Gott! wem gehort dieses Haus?-Tyrolese house motto. I built a house, four perfect walls and strong, To hold the ...
The World were a place to play in, said the children, "The playground of the present; all that is have ...
Sitting alone in my room, Alone in the gathering gloom, Solitude in the rest of the tomb. While the drip, ...
He on his man-child laid a soothing hand, And hushed him into slumber, singing, "Sleep! For thee the world was ...
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