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Dora Sigerson Shorter
1866 – 1918
Poetry Listing
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Ballad Of Marjorie | What ails you that you look so pale, | | 52 | 118 | | 2: | A Bird From The West | At the grey dawn, amongst the felling leaves, | | 28 | 49 | | 3: | A Friend In Need | Who has room for a friend | | 20 | 66 | | 4: | A Little Dog | A little dog disturbed my trust in Heaven. | | 67 | 63 | | 5: | A Meadow Tragedy | Here’s a meadow full of sunshine | | 12 | 52 | | 6: | A New Year | Behold! a new white world! | | 36 | 63 | | 7: | A Vagrant Heart | O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine, | | 36 | 47 | | 8: | A Weeping Cupid | Why love! I thought you were gay and fair, | | 26 | 62 | | 9: | All Souls’ Eve | I cried all night to you, | | 40 | 53 | | 10: | An Eastern God | I saw an Eastern God to-day; | | 26 | 84 | | 11: | An Eclipse | Let there be an end | | 8 | 102 | | 12: | An Imperfect Revolution | They crowded weeping from the teacher’s house, | | 40 | 57 | | 13: | An Irish Blackbird | This is my brave singer, | | 20 | 56 | | 14: | At Christmas Time | For that old love I once adored | | 16 | 55 | | 15: | Banagher Rhue | Banagher Rhue of Donegal, | | 40 | 46 | | 16: | Beware | I closed my hands upon a moth | | 8 | 75 | | 17: | Cean Duv Deelish | Cean duv deelish, beside the sea | | 30 | 57 | | 18: | Cupid Slain | I come from a burial; | | 16 | 57 | | 19: | Death Of Gormlaith | Gormlaith, wife of Niall Glendu, | | 28 | 51 | | 20: | Distant Voices | I left my home for travelling; | | 36 | 69 | | 21: | For Ever | He heard it first upon the lips of love, | | 16 | 62 | | 22: | I Am The World | I am the song, that rests upon the cloud; | | 40 | 69 | | 23: | I Prayed So Eagerly | I prayed so eagerly, | | 10 | 68 | | 24: | In A Wood | Hush, ’tis thy voice! | | 12 | 55 | | 25: | Love | Deep in the moving depths | | 32 | 73 | | 26: | My Neighbour’s Garden | Why in my neighbour’s garden | | 24 | 69 | | 27: | Questions | What is the secret of your life, browsing ox, | | 8 | 55 | | 28: | Sanctuary | Neighbour! for pity a hound cries on your steps | | 24 | 59 | | 29: | The Ballad Of The Fairy Thorn-Tree | This is an evil night to go, my sister, | | 124 | 70 | | 30: | The Ballad Of The Little Black Hound | Who knocks at the Geraldine’s door to-night | | 132 | 44 | | 31: | The Blow Returned | I struck you once, I do remember well. | | 12 | 56 | | 32: | The Fair Little Maiden | There is one at the door, Wolfe O’Driscoll, | | 28 | 72 | | 33: | The Fairy Changeling | Dermod O’Byrne of Omah town | | 28 | 61 | | 34: | The Kine Of My Father | The kine of my rather, they are straying from my keeping; | | 24 | 55 | | 35: | The Lover | I go through wet spring woods alone, | | 24 | 73 | | 36: | The Old Maid | She walks in a lonely garden | | 40 | 54 | | 37: | The Priest’s Brother | Thrice in the night the priest arose | | 52 | 59 | | 38: | The Rape Of The Baron’s Wine | Who was stealing the Baron’s wine, | | 88 | 59 | | 39: | The Scallop Shell | A scallop shell, loosed by the lifting tide, | | 12 | 52 | | 40: | The Skeleton In The Cupboard | Just this one day in all the year | | 28 | 61 | | 41: | The Story and Song of Black Roderick | It was the Black Earl Roderick | | 675 | 64 | | 42: | The Suicide’s Grave | This is the scene of a man’s despair, and a soul’s release | | 76 | 53 | | 43: | The Wreckage | Love lit a beacon in thine eyes, | | 8 | 71 | | 44: | Unknown Ideal | Whose is the voice that will not let me rest? | | 24 | 54 | | 45: | Vale | Good-bye, sweet friend, good-bye, | | 12 | 64 | | 46: | What Will You Give? | What will you give me, if I will wed? | | 24 | 85 | | 47: | When The Dark Comes | When the dark comes, | | 12 | 64 | | 48: | When You Are On The Sea | How can I laugh or dance as others do, | | 24 | 58 | | 49: | Wirastrua | Wirastrua, wirastrua, woe to me that you are dead! | | 11 | 52 | | 50: | Wishes | I wish we could live as the flowers live, | | 12 | 67 | | 51: | With A Rose | In the heart of a rose | | 16 | 57 | | 52: | You Will Not Come Again | The green has come to the leafless tree, | | 12 | 59 |
About:
Dora Sigerson (1866–1918) was an Irish poet, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester (née Varian) also a writer. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her friends included Katharine Tynan, a noted Irish-born poet and author, Rose Kavanagh and Alice Furlong, writers and poets.
In 1895 she married Clement King Shorter, an English journalist and literary critic. They lived together in London, until her death.
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