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Title: The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

Author: Dora Sigerson

Release Date: October 5, 2009 [eBook #30184]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FAIRY CHANGELING AND OTHER
POEMS***

Transcribed from the 1898 John Lane edition by David Price, email
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[Picture: The Old Maid]

THE FAIRY
CHANGELING
AND OTHER
POEMS

BY DORA SIGERSON
(MRS CLEMENT SHORTER)

[Picture: Decorative shamrock divider]

JOHN LANE
THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON & NEW YORK
MDCCCXCVIII

NOTE

_Only one of the pieces in the following collection appeared in the
writer's earlier volume_ ("_Verses_" _by Dora Sigerson_; _Elliot Stock_,
1893). _The remainder have found refuge in_ "_Longman's Magazine_,"
"_The Pall Mall Magazine_," "_The National Observer_" (_of Mr. Henley_),
"_Cassell's Magazine_," _and numerous American publications_--"_The
Century Magazine_," "_The Bookman_," "_The Boston Pilot_," "_The
Chap-Book_," _and others_. _The Author wishes to thank the Editors of
these magazines and journals for the kindness implied_.

CONTENTS

The Fairy Changeling _Page_ 1
A Ballad of Marjorie 3
The Priest's Brother 6
The Ballad of the Little Black Hound 9
The Rape of the Baron's Wine 15
Cean Duv Deelish 19
Banagher Rhue 21
The Fair Little Maiden 23
At Christmas Time 25
A Weeping Cupid 26
The Lover 28
A Bird from the Wes