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Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter

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Winter In Summer

... Smooth cheeks flush pink as blossoms, ...

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The Breakage

... ‘Now she'll never know,’ she said, ...

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I Have Been To Hy-Brasail

... Much laughter have I heard there, ...

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Sorrow

... Of my sad heart I hushed you till I crushed you ...

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Rain After Drought

... Their rill-like voices called and cried ...

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Patriotism

... And blood and sweat its tender roots must lave, ...

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The Loiterer

... Then, greybeard, chase the frown from off thy brow, ...

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A Changeling

... Her wings that would grow with her growth, ...

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Haunted

... They tread from room to room, they pass from stair to stair, ...

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The Nameless One

... Last night a voice wailed round the house ...

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The Suicide’s Grave

... Tear the strand, till slipping pebbles shriek through their claws ...

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The Road Of The Refugees

... Hear the lost feet straying, from the roadway slipping, ...

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Loves Me? Loves Me Not?

... " I shall walk no more by the great sea dreaming ...

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My Lady’s Slipper

... One man should love her so, see her there weeping, ...

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Dark Is The Tomb

... By those proud tombs that bear a patriot's name ...