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Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. As much of her other poetry, this volume also succeeds in connecting a modern style of poetry with deep emotion and themes of Irish mythology. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 37 min)

Chapters

The Fairy Changeling

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