Dora Sigerson Shorter
Who is Dora Sigerson Shorter
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter (16 August 1866 – 6 January 1918) was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Life
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester Varian, also a writer. She was the oldest of 4 children. The family home at 3 Clare Street was a gathering-place for artists and writers where Dora met important figures of the emerging Irish literary revival. She attended the Dublin School of Art, where W.B. Yeats was a fellow-pupil. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her sister Hester Sigerson Piatt was also a writer. Her friends included Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh and Ali...
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Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems
- At Christmas Time
For that old love I once adored
I decked my halls and spread my board
At Christmas time.
With all the winter's flowers that grow
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- The Kine Of My Father
The kine of my rather, they are straying from my keeping;
The young goat's at mischief, but little can I do:
For all through the night did I hear the Banshee keening;
O youth of my loving, and is it well with you?
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- The Fairy Changeling
Dermod O'Byrne of Omah town
In his garden strode up and down;
He pulled his beard, and he beat his breast;
And this is his trouble and woe confessed:
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- A Vagrant Heart
O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine,
When the winds are out and calling to this vagrant heart of mine.
Whisht! it whistles at the windows, and how can I be still?
There! the last leaves of the beech-tree go dancing down the hill.
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- For Ever
He heard it first upon the lips of love,
And loved it for love's sake;
A faithful word, that knows nor time nor change,
Nor lone heart-break.
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Comments about Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Swanriverpress: the green book 17
“an exceptionally well-produced periodical.” – s. t. joshi
“a welcome addition to the realm of accessible nonfiction about supernatural horror.” – ellen datlow
issue 17 features a wholelotta katharine tynan and dora sigerson shorter!
- Deadpoetsdaily: you will not come again on dead poets daily
- Tomhennessy20: "sixteen dead men!shall they return?
"yea,they shall come again,breath of our breath.
they on our nation's hearth made old fires burn.
guard her unconquered soul,strong in their death." " sixteen dead men " from " the tricolour" by dora sigerson shorter.
- T00_far: i want to talk to thee
by dora sigerson shorter
- Thehughlane: 'dora sigerson shorter (posthumous portrait)'~ john sir lavery, (1918)
this is a three-quarter length portrait of a woman, dora sigerson shorter. she is facing right and stares vacantly, without engaging the viewer.
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