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 ...
Young Dermod stood by his mother's side,And he spake right stern and cold;"Now, why do you weep and wail," he ...
A BALLAD OF SORROW "Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! arise and let me in; Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! will you awake?" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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; ...
It will be all the same in a thousand years. And in a thousand years It will be all the ...
Is there no bond of blood to you, my brother? Who have called her ours, the ancient Mother, And here ...
A Legend of Tyrol I through the valley of Klausen went By a little stream, and heard it sigh, Down ...
The Virgin speaks Draw back the starry curtains of the night, O Cherubim, and Seraphim! Pull back the purple curtains ...
A Prayer in Time of War Whence comes the rain that ceaselessly doth fall, And seems to hold the bitter ...
All on a golden morning the beggar maid did go To gather branch and berry, the hazel-nut and sloe. And ...
Kine, kine, in the meadows, why do you low so piteously? High is the grass to your knees and wet ...
Before her mirror in a pouting mood, Afraid to weep lest anger should revoke The picture there, she did impatient ...
The good Lord gave, the Lord has taken from me, Blessed be His name, His holy will be done The ...
A CHILD'S SONG There sits a piper on the hill Who pipes the livelong day, And when he pipes both ...
Upon the shore young Una lies, A smile upon her mouth; Soft breezes kiss her heavy hair, Slow blowing from ...
My fair-haired boy is sore bewitched, He goes all full of grieving; The web of gloom upon his brow Is ...
O MOTHER, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board spread, I prayed for his ...
There is one at the door, Wolfe O'Driscoll,At the door, who bids you to come!""Who is he that wakes me ...
'May I go to the field,' said the little white rabbit, 'Where the corn grows sweet and high?' 'Is there ...
Some on the pleasant hillside have thought they saw thee pass, As flings a cloud before the sun a shadow ...
He on his man-child laid a soothing hand, And hushed him into slumber, singing, "Sleep! For thee the world was ...
Up in the cave of the wind, All bent and crabbed with their years, In endless chatter they sit, Old ...
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