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 ...
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 ...
Going, going! the voice was loud, And, rising, silenced the chattering crowd. "Going! going! shall it be gone?" The auctioneer ...
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 ...
A beggar sat by the King's highway, O, but the road was long! His hair was black and his beard ...
The Dean of Santiago on his mule Rode quick the Guadalquivir banks along, He had no eye the veiling eve ...
This is the scene of a man's despair, and a soul's release From the difficult traits of the flesh; so, ...
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 ...
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 ...
God made the man and bid him multiply, Replenish the green earth, nor break the die Made by His hand; ...
Golden-throated, hath God sent thee for our comfort in the city? Sweet, sweet! singing, singing all the day. I said ...
And so goodbye, my love, my dear, and so goodbye, E'en thus from my sad heart go hence, depart; I ...
A miller's daughter, as I heard tell- Sing heigh! but the maid was merry- Was loved by her father's man ...
It will be all the same in a thousand years. And in a thousand years It will be all the ...
When I was a young lad of happy sixteen There came to my window the Cushla-mo chree, And the song ...
Thrice turned she in her narrow bed, His tears disturbed her rest; She kissed the little babe that lay So ...
A little dog disturbed my trust in Heaven. I praised most faithfully All the great things that be, Man's pain ...
O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine,When the winds are out and calling to this ...
A Prayer in Time of War Whence comes the rain that ceaselessly doth fall, And seems to hold the bitter ...
Kine, kine, in the meadows, why do you low so piteously? High is the grass to your knees and wet ...
I wish I were over the Curlew Mountains, Marching to Sligo by valley and fen; I wish I were back ...
A spirit speeding down on All Souls' Eve From the wide gates of that mysterious shore Where sleep the dead, ...
Lo! I am athirst, said the brown earth, "And I would drink my fill." "Have I not slaked thee," cried ...
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