Love lit a beacon in thine eyes,
And I out in the storm,
And lo! the night had taken wings;
I dream me safe and warm.
Love lit a beacon in thine eyes,
A wreckers’ light for me;
My heart is broken on the rocks;
I perish in the sea.
From: Sigerson, Dora (Mrs Clement Shorter), The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems, 1897, John Lane, The Bodley Head: London and New York, p. 52.
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Date: 1897
By: Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
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