A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
The lad I was I longer now
Nor am nor shall be evermore.
Spring’s lovely blossoms from my brow
Have shed their petals on the floor.
Thou, Love, hast been my lord, thy shrine
Above all gods’ best served by me.
Dear Love, could life again be mine
How bettered should that service be!
A few random poems:
- I Entreat You, Alfred Tennyson by Walter Savage Landor
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Gift Of The Great – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона вторая
- Владимир Набоков – Забудешь ты меня, как эту ночь забудешь
- A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
- Be Lost In The Call by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Olney Hymn 30: The Light And Glory Of The Word by William Cowper
- Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns
- Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky
- Lying on a Slab by Satish Verma
- Вера Павлова – Вопрос ребра
- Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. by Walt Whitman
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alan Seeger (1888-1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist and the uncle of folk musician, Pete Seeger.