Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WISHES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER


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First Line: I wish we could live as the flowers live
Last Line: And to leave but an empty nest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Wishes


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.

I wish we could love as the bees love,
To rest or to roam without sorrow or sigh;
With laughter, when, after the wooer had won,
Love flew with a whispered goodbye.

I wish we could die as the birds die,
To fly and to fall when our beauty was best:
No trammels of time on the years of our face;
And to leave but an empty nest.





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