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:
- Вера Полозкова – Гонево
- Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Coleridge
- Владимир Британишский – Иван Долгорукой
- So tired by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Василий Тредиаковский – Дворы там весьма суть уединенны
- Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу
- Владимир Маяковский – Электричество – вид энергии
- Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day by William Shakespeare
- Peace by Patrick Kavanagh
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Vachel Lindsay
- Юлиан Анисимов – Стихи мои, нежные гости
- Федор Сологуб – Лепестками завялыми
- The Fabulists by Rudyard Kipling
- Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.