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    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
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    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

    By Dora Sigerson Shorter

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    "The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems" by Dora Sigerson Shorter. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664581549
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      The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter

      Dora Sigerson Shorter

      The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664581549

      Table of Contents

      A BALLAD OF MARJORIE

      THE PRIEST’S BROTHER

      THE BALLAD OF THE LITTLE BLACK HOUND

      THE RAPE OF THE BARON’S WINE

      CEAN DUV DEELISH

      BANAGHER RHUE

      THE FAIR LITTLE MAIDEN

      AT CHRISTMAS TIME

      A WEEPING CUPID

      THE LOVER

      A BIRD FROM THE WEST

      ALL SOULS’ EVE

      AN IMPERFECT REVOLUTION

      LOVE

      WISHES

      CUPID SLAIN

      WHAT WILL YOU GIVE?

      A MEADOW TRAGEDY

      AN ECLIPSE

      THE SCALLOP SHELL

      WITH A ROSE

      FOR EVER

      THE BLOW RETURNED

      VALE

      THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD

      YOU WILL NOT COME AGAIN

      THE WRECKAGE

      I AM THE WORLD

      A NEW YEAR

      THE KINE OF MY FATHER

      SANCTUARY

      AN EASTERN GOD

      A FRIEND IN NEED

      IN A WOOD

      A VAGRANT HEART

      WHEN YOU ARE ON THE SEA

      MY NEIGHBOUR’S GARDEN

      AN IRISH BLACKBIRD

      DEATH OF GORMLAITH

      UNKNOWN IDEAL

      BEWARE

      THE OLD MAID

      WIRASTRUA

      QUESTIONS

      A LITTLE DOG

      I PRAYED SO EAGERLY

      WHEN THE DARK COMES

      DISTANT VOICES

      THE BALLAD OF THE FAIRY THORN-TREE

      THE SUICIDE’S GRAVE

      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:

      "The good-folk came in the night, and they

      Have stolen my bonny wean away;

      Have put in his place a changeling,

      A weashy, weakly, wizen thing!

      "From the speckled hen nine eggs I stole,

      And lighting a fire of a glowing coal,

      I fried the shells, and I spilt the yolk;

      But never a word the stranger spoke:

      "A bar of metal I heated red

      To frighten the fairy from its bed,

      To put in the place of this fretting wean

      My own bright beautiful boy again.

      "But my wife had hidden it in her arms,

      And cried ‘For shame!’ on my fairy charms;

      She sobs, with the strange child on her breast:

      ‘I love the weak, wee babe the best!’"

      To Dermod O’Byrne’s, the tale to hear,

      The neighbours came from far and near:

      Outside his gate, in the long boreen,

      They crossed themselves, and said between

      Their muttered prayers, "He has no luck!

      For sure the woman is fairy-struck,

      To leave her child a fairy guest,

      And love the weak, wee wean the best!"

      A BALLAD OF MARJORIE

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      "What ails you that you look so pale,

      O fisher of the sea?"

      "’Tis for a mournful tale I own,

      Fair maiden Marjorie."

      "What is the dreary tale to tell,

      O toiler of the sea?"

      "I cast my net into the waves,

      Sweet maiden Marjorie.

      "I cast my net into the tide,

      Before I made for home;

      Too heavy for my hands to raise,

      I drew it through the foam."

      "What saw you that you look so pale,

      Sad searcher of the sea?"

      "A dead man’s body from the deep

      My haul had brought to me!"

      And was he young, and was he fair?

      "Oh, cruel to behold!

      In his white face the joy of life

      Not yet was grown a-cold."

      "Oh, pale you are, and full of prayer

      For one who sails the sea."

      "Because the dead looked up and spoke,

      Poor maiden Marjorie."

      "What said he, that you seem so sad,

      O fisher of the sea?

      (Alack!

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