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Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter

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A New Year

... Of Destiny! Thou wast a babe on that ...

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The Young Volunteer

... 'Tis but the storm winds flutter old dreams you dare not utter ...

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I want to Talk to Thee

... Each day old dreams come back with beating wings, ...

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Forever

... A faithful word, that knows nor time nor change, ...

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All-Souls' Night

... Of the land of the dead, on my bent brown head I felt the reproach of his saddened eyes ...

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The Three Fates

... All bent and crabbed with their years, ...

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By The Sea

... ‘Come in, sweet ghost, from thy lonely bed, ...

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The Old Song

... " she cried, "O, my father will rage and my mother will mourn, ...

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The Storm

... From their sad flesh, to break them in their chase ...

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The Hill-Side Men

... My hopes are lost, my dreams are fled ...

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Pre-Existence

... Ah, goodbye! You forget, but I sigh for that past ...

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Spring And Autumn

... Where sleep my dead, hushed by the soft winds blowing, ...

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The Red Rose

... 'Twas but a dead branch, broken and brown branch, ...

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You Will Not Come Again

... Love swift will come for the weak lambs' cry ...

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A Meadow Tragedy

... Here's a mead all full of summer, ...