Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems

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91.
Comfort The Women

A Prayer in Time of War
Whence comes the rain that ceaselessly doth fall,
And seems to hold the bitter taste of tears?
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92.
Conscription

There is a shadow on the head I love,
There is a danger lurks thy path upon,
It murmurs low as coos the mating dove,
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93.
Cupid Slain

I come from a burial;
Hush! let me be
I have put away my love,
Fair exceedingly.
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94.
Daisies

Blossomed too soon, little daisies of Spring!
Leaving the sheltering arms of the earth,
The white tears of Winter unshed in the sky,
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95.
The Sea Hounds

'There's a hound at the door, Shawn O'Farrell,
There's a hound at the door.
If you take down the bar or the shutter,
I shall see you no more,
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96.
The Sea Maiden

I drew her out of the wave
High up on the windy shore.
Oh, never a fish I caught
So fair in my net before.
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97.
The Sea-Mew

I had loved the pretty birds that by my window sung—
The gentle thrush that had his nest the perfumed pines among;
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98.
The Secret

I know of a thrush's nest, a pretty nest, a cosy nest,
I know of a thrush's nest with three fine eggs of blue;
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99.
The Seeking Of Content

Sweet Content, at the rich man's gate,
Called, 'Wilt thou let me in?'
'No! thou art poor and thou art not great,
Hast nothing thy way to win.
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100.
The Sister

WHAT is balm for a soul distressed, O! sailor tell to me ?
“A good ship in a fighting wind glad of an angry sea.
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