Potential Titles: Dora Sigerson Shorter / Dora Sigerson

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When he came from unknown skies - Dora Sigerson "All-Souls' Night"

Decked my hall and spread my board - Dora Sigerson Shorter "At Christmas Time"

Down the black stairs of death - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

A bed both wide and hollow - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

Chained and frozen cold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

From the leash of wind and rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Little Black Hound"

And win with the devil's dice - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Banagher Rhue"

All this strange and noisy night - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Banagher Rhue"

Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"

From out the shadows wondering - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Bird from the West"

Hard on the track of passion - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Blow Returned"

Crushing hoofs and tearing feet - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Cean Duv Deelish"

More wisdom than near tongues can make - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Distant Voices"

That wakes me in the darkness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fair Little Maiden"

Put in his place a changeling - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fairy Changeling"

For the hour you promised me - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fetch"

A breath of Heaven's faithfulness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "For Ever"

Who, breathing on the stars, blows out the sun - Dora Sigerson Shorter "I Am the World"

As the oxen go beneath the rod - Dora Sigerson Shorter "An Imperfect Revolution"

Lock with keys of Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "An Imperfect Revolution"

The young goat's at mischief - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

The vultures shriek impatient - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Disturbed my trust in Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Little Dog"

Into the sorrows of a weeping world - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Little Dog"

In the moving depths of yellow wine - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

Crouched within my cup - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

All stern and robed in gloom - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

The gentle gaze of fawn and deer - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"

Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

The cuckoo from the distance cries - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

The lark a pilgrim in the skies - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

Autumn poppies bloom and die - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

A reaper on the roadway - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Meadow Tragedy"

Here the grapes are bitter - Dora Sigerson Shorter "My Neighbour's Garden"

The nest that long was full of rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"

Faith may blossom green again - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"

On the path her feet have made - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"

Glowed like the wheat in autumn - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"

Burst through the gates of silence - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"

All night did the Banshee weep - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"

And thrust the phantom from its place - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"

The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"

Slipping pebbles shriek through their claws - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Suicide's Grave"

To mimic that far voice - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"

To bid my heart rejoice - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"

Beauty that tarries not, nor satisfies - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"

The shore that will gratify my quest - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"

We struggle on with Fate - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"

Echoing on unknown ways - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"

The hunger of the snow - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"

The winds that blow you backward - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"

Change my vagrant longings - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"

Hands that meet to part - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Vale"

An arm of steel and a heart of gold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Weeping Cupid"

Pace with the serious hours - Dora Sigerson Shorter "When the Dark Comes"

Inherit the unrest of the wind - Dora Sigerson "The Wind on the Hills"

For some memory denied - Dora Sigerson "The Wind on the Hills"

To roam without sorrow or sigh - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Wishes"

Will come for the weak lambs' cry - Dora Sigerson Shorter "You Will Not Come Again"


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