Description
A poem about love, time and death where the poet rants about how time flies by as she waits for it impatiently on the roadway. She waited long hours for her love to arrive, as she wondered what took him so long to see her. Since the time when she left her father’s home, she hurried in the dusky road that evening. Surprisingly, she saw a dead body of a young maid all dressed in white. She thought of her to be a beloved friend or a dear sister who left her loved ones mourning. But her face was unseen, as she follows her to her resting place. She wondered if the corpse went up by the town path or down by the lake or by the two churchyards where the corpse peacefully rested. All the corpse lie solemnly there. She was curious who really was the fair young maid. A man was with that young maid buried her in the unholy grave. She took her life because of him for a reason no one can tell. Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was born on August 16, 1866 and died on January 6, 1918. She was a poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote using her name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, to her parents, George Sigerson, a surgeon and author, and Hester Varian Sigerson, also an author. She was a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival, writing a number of collections of poetry from 1893. Her friends are Katharine Tynan, Rose Kavanagh and Alice Furlong, also authors and poets. She married Clement King Shorter in 1895, he was a journalist and literary critic from England. They resided in London, until she died at the age of 51. Dora Maria also wrote these: The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems and The Story and Song of Black Roderick.
Product ID: 9781776723003
Sku: Z8-M2K3-BCCF
