Dora Sigerson Shorter Seeking Poems
Sweet Content, at the rich man's gate,
Called, 'Wilt thou let me in?'
'No! thou art poor and thou art not great,
Hast nothing thy way to win.
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There I cannot find thee, O my love!
In the city's clamour,
In its pleasure's glamour;
'Mid the multitude of faces
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