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:
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us by William Ernest Henley
- Robert Burns: Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The:
- Sleep
- The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
- Epilogue poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] by Thomas Hardy
- Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode
- Sampan Song
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Благодарю Вас за цветы
- rice_pudding.html
- Омар Хайям – Мы пешки, небо же игрок
- Attempted Assassination of the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- There is a Community of Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Олег Бундур – Спешу
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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.