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Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter

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In The Carlyle House, Chelsea

... And spoke to that great world shut from these walls ...

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Cupid Slain

... Till I turned and slew him, ...

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Gray Eyes

... While the drip, drip, drip of the rain, ...

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They Did Not See Thy Face

... They praised thy fairness and held dear thy meekness and thy grace ...

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A Student’s Song

... I would drink till I grew gay and mellow, ...

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Herod

... I would find A people, then unborn, yet for whose sake ...

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The Me Within Thee Blind!

... In my grief I go from church to church, from clime to clime, ...

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In A Wood

... Let loose a withered leaf that falls behind, ...

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The Fetch

... What first he heard was his own love's name, ...

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The Deserted Lover

... Through sweet green woods with heart of stone, ...

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The Star

... There it shone purely bright, faithful as planets shine, ...

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In The Midst Of Life…

... All the long day there passed me on their way ...

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Man’s Discontent

... I thought her soft arms too slender, and the smooth young cheek too clear, ...

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Sixteen Dead Men

... “Tea, they shall come again, breath of our breath ...

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The Piper On The Hills

... The wind, the wind, the wind, the wind, ...