Dora Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and artist. Her collection, The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems, is dark and well-loved to this day. It features poems about eclipses, Halloween and other mysterious, haunting events.
Dora Sigerson Shorter’s ‘Wishes’ reflects on living simply and purely, drawing inspiration from the natural world’s beauty and simplicity.
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.
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