A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame,
Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast,
Now glows far off as storm-clouds overpast
Glow in the sunset flushed with glorious flame.
Has Nature marred his mould? Can Art acclaim
No hero now, no man with whom men side
As with their hearts’ high needs personified?
There are will say, One such our lips could name;
Columbia gave him birth. Him Genius most
Gifted to rule. Against the world’s great man
Lift their low calumny and sneering cries
The Pharisaic multitude, the host
Of piddling slanderers whose little eyes
Know not what greatness is and never can.
A few random poems:
- Lovers since Eternity by Preeth Nambiar
- Владимир Солоухин – Волки
- Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
- The Metropolitan Tower by Sara Teasdale
- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Fragment—Her Flwoing Locks by Robert Burns
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Владимир Маяковский – Декрет о натуральном налоге на хлеб, картофель и масличные семена
- different lovers by Raj Arumugam
- Lines on the Author’s Death by Robert Burns
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- Николай Некрасов – Внимая ужасам войны
- Константин Бальмонт – Четыре источника
- Robert Burns: A Vision:
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
- Ольга Седакова – Луг, юго-западный ветер
- Ольга Седакова – Липа
- Ольга Седакова – Легенда шестая
- Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча
- Ольга Седакова – Когда говорю я: помилуй
- Ольга Седакова – Как упавшую руку
- Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте
- Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок
- Ольга Седакова – И меня удивило
- Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка
- Ольга Седакова – Где-нибудь в углу запущенной болезни
- Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида
- Ольга Седакова – Элегия смоковницы
- Ольга Седакова – Элегия осенней воды
- Ольга Седакова – Две книги я несу
- Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник
- Ольга Седакова – Деревья, сильный ветер
- Ольга Седакова – Давид поет Саулу
- Ольга Седакова – Цивилизация
- Ольга Седакова – Болезнь
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.