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Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter

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The Three Trees

... Oh, I would I were the pine that groweth straight and tall, ...

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The Little Sister

... But her face was strange and white, ...

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At Christmas-Time

... With all the winter's flowers that grow ...

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The One Forgotten

... "Draw close your chairs, for colder falls the night ...

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Donacha Rua

... . ." The trick is gained, but your chance is small ...

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What Will You Give?

... " How will you please me, if I should thirst ...

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If You Should Pass

... Give me but silence where good friendship waned, ...

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The White Witch

... “Come back,” I cried, “you witch’s child, ...

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The Swallow

... I will dream the lone long hours, sick sad days, and weary nights ...

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Love In My Arms Lies Sleeping

... The fairest blossoms in all love's land, for that small hot hand, ...

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One Day In December

... Then we laughed as the boat glided back from the shore ...

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Kathleen’s Charity

... " "The world is good," she said, and laughed, ...

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The Banshee

... And say, "May God bring home your lad, ...

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For Whom?

... For whom, then, have I planned this welcome shade ...

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The Lone Soul

... Like the great pine that, rocking no sweet nest, ...