Thew Wind (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Is it some shade from Paradise, Shut down beneath the clouding skies, This wandering voice that ever cries In its ...
Is it some shade from Paradise, Shut down beneath the clouding skies, This wandering voice that ever cries In its ...
How I hate the sparrows, the sparrows, the sparrows. In and out and round the house all the live-long day, ...
O Lady Aideen, will you wed with me, wed with me in the early morning? A silken gown for your ...
I would I had a thousand tongues To sing thy praise, to sing thy praise, I'd teach the birds on ...
To clasp his spirit undefiled, my spirit leaped beneath my hand, He said no sad reproach to me, but only, ...
What we must do and may not do. This is the World's whole refrain, Till beating on the wearied brain, ...
I had no culture for my love, Hungrily my heart cried "Knowledge, be my master, Turn, brain, O faster. Grind ...
I, like a moth to the candle, Am chained by a glance from your eye. If I shun you, the ...
One morning, when dreaming in deep meditation, I met a sweet colleen a-making her moan. With sighing and sobbing she ...
Listen to the tramping! Oh, God of pity, listen! Can we kneel at prayer, sleep all unmolested, While the echo ...
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 ...
Upon the shore young Una lies, A smile upon her mouth; Soft breezes kiss her heavy hair, Slow blowing from ...
She saw on the far bank a golden apple, A glowing apple, poor little Eve, Between ran the river so ...
Halt, who goes there? "'Tis for the new-born king, In long processions see what gifts we bring. Here cometh Care ...
Neighbour! for pity a hound cries on your steps, With pleading eyes, with sore and weary feet. Neighbour! your pity ...
In southern seas we sailed, my love and I, In southern seas. Death joined no chorus as the waves swept ...
I shall go on the gypsies' road, The road that has no ending; For the sedge is brown on the ...
Thou shalt feel no more the wind on thy wing, Nor float on the breath of the breeze; Thou shalt ...
Just this one day in all the year Let all be one, let all be dear; Wife, husband, child in ...
I saw an Eastern God to-day; My comrades laughed; lest I betray My secret thoughts, I mocked him too. His ...
Why, Love! I thought you were gay and fair, Merry of mien and debonair. What then means this brow so ...
I raised my hands against my fate, I struck her frowning brows between; "I will be good, I will be ...
Some on the pleasant hillside have thought they saw thee pass, As flings a cloud before the sun a shadow ...
At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves,A little bird outside my window swung,High on a topmost branch he trilled ...
Roses red for the fair young head to weave a crown, Let them be half blown, For a rose in ...
How long wilt thou love me, O my love? "As long as life may be." Life is but a breath ...
Who is he, dying so hard? Hard is it to die- Die in the warmth of June, Bird and bee ...
Well, love, so be it as you say, Just the hours of a summer's day, And no sighing for what ...
Deep in the moving depths Of yellow wine, I swore I'd drown your face, O love of mine; All clad ...
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