Kittie’s Toys (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
A CHILD'S SONG I wish I had a soldier, a soldier, a soldier, I wish I had a ...
A CHILD'S SONG I wish I had a soldier, a soldier, a soldier, I wish I had a ...
In a field by CahirconlishI stood on sleeping grass,No cry I made to HeavenFrom my dumb lips would pass.Three days, ...
Mountains and vales, how ye quake 'neath His tread- Wake from your slumbers, He calls, O ye dead! Tremble, great ...
She had hair gold as her father's corn; She tripped and sung, Like to a little lamb new-born, So gay, ...
Many worlds have I made, said the Good God, "But this is best of all," He slipped the round earth ...
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, ...
Before my time my kindred were As felons in their land, Because they claimed the liberty That freemen understand. Ere ...
Listen to the tramping! Oh, God of pity, listen! Can we kneel at prayer, sleep all unmolested, While the echo ...
This Consul Casement-he who heard the cry Of stricken people-and who in his fight To lift the torture load from ...
Give me the heavy sleep, the dreamless slumber Nor shrouded grief nor sorrow will encumber. Let me but sleep as ...
Now God between us and all harm, For I to-night have seen A banshee in the shadow pass Along the ...
This is the son of the white morning singing, Combing her silken hair's simmer of gold, All of her slenderness ...
Hark! in the still night. Who goes there?"Fifteen dead men" Why do they wait?"Hasten, comrade, death is so fair"Now comes ...
Bring to me white roses, roses, pinks, and lavender, Sweet stock and gillyflowers, poppies mauve and red, Bee-flowers and mignonette, ...
O were my heart a little dog I'd call it to my side To hold it with a silken lead ...
They lit a fire within their land that long was ashes cold,With splendid dreams they made it glow, threw in ...
I have a rose gardenFull of sweet flowers;Yellow bloom, crimson bloom,Perfume the hours.I have an apple treeBent with its load;Ruddy ...
When the dark comes, "Is this the end?" I pray; No answer from the night, And then once more the ...
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