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 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 ...
God bless the work, said young Kathleen, She bent her golden head, And in her cheek that was so pale ...
Where have you been, my pale, pale son, all night in the winter storm? (Hark! the joy bells chime in ...
Lone did I go within the ancient place, With hush?d voice, and slow and reverent tread; While on the walls ...
Thrice turned she in her narrow bed, His tears disturbed her rest; She kissed the little babe that lay So ...
The Virgin speaks Draw back the starry curtains of the night, O Cherubim, and Seraphim! Pull back the purple curtains ...
A little dog disturbed my trust in Heaven. I praised most faithfully All the great things that be, Man's pain ...
On the lone height of some untrodden hill The shadowy mother goes, Calling, calling; Grief hath her eyes, her cheek ...
A Prayer in Time of War Whence comes the rain that ceaselessly doth fall, And seems to hold the bitter ...
See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard; With frowning brow, and far and absent gaze, On his bowed head ...
Kine, kine, in the meadows, why do you low so piteously? High is the grass to your knees and wet ...
Out from her doorway peeped the little maid To gaze upon the world most full of glee. Her eager eyes ...
Sweet Content, at the rich man's gate, Called, "Wilt thou let me in?" "No! thou art poor and thou art ...
A Ballad of Good Intentions Four children played by an old oak tree, Big John and James and little Benjie, ...
A CHILD'S SONG I wish I had a soldier, a soldier, a soldier, I wish I had a ...
O Lady Aideen, will you wed with me, wed with me in the early morning? A silken gown for your ...
To clasp his spirit undefiled, my spirit leaped beneath my hand, He said no sad reproach to me, but only, ...
Here, in the silent churchyard, 'mid a thousand dead, alone, Weary I sit for a moment clasping this cross of ...
The world has many lovers, but the one She loves the best is he within whose heart She but half-reigning ...
What we must do and may not do. This is the World's whole refrain, Till beating on the wearied brain, ...
I, like a moth to the candle, Am chained by a glance from your eye. If I shun you, the ...
My darling laughed in the dawning, And the birds perched low to hear. The quick sprung anew from dead ashes ...
Last eve as I leaned from my lattice, looked out at the night Where the grey of the sea misted ...
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