English Poetry. Dora Sigerson Shorter. Wishes. Дора Сигерсон Шортер.

Dora Sigerson Shorter (Дора Сигерсон Шортер)

Wishes

I wish we could live as the flowers live,
   To breathe and to bloom in the summer and sun;
To slumber and sway in the heart of the night,
   And to die when our glory had done.

I wish we could love as the bees love,
   To rest or to roam without sorrow or sigh;
With laughter, when, after the wooer had won,
   Love flew with a whispered good-bye.

I wish we could die as the birds die,
   To fly and to fall when our beauty was best:
No trammels of time on the years of our face;
   And to leave but an empty nest.

Dora Sigerson Shorter’s other poems:

1. The Rape of the Baron’s Wine
2. When You Are on the Sea
3. My Neighbour’s Garden
4. The Fairy Changeling
5. For Ever

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Menella Smedley (Менелла Смедли) Wishes (“Looking back”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Wishes (“Whatever you want, if you wish for it long”)

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