A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
The rooks aclamor when one enters here
Startle the empty towers far overhead;
Through gaping walls the summer fields appear,
Green, tan, or, poppy-mingled, tinged with red.
The courts where revel rang deep grass and moss
Cover, and tangled vines have overgrown
The gate where banners blazoned with a cross
Rolled forth to toss round Tyre and Ascalon.
Decay consumes it. The old causes fade.
And fretting for the contest many a heart
Waits their Tyrtaeus to chant on the new.
Oh, pass him by who, in this haunted shade
Musing enthralled, has only this much art,
To love the things the birds and flowers love too.
A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: To Daunton Me:
- I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
- Singapore by Mary Gilmore
- Impromtu On Ogareva poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A Memory by Rupert Brooke
- Владимир Высоцкий – Запись в книге почётных гостей ВНИИФТРИ
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 42. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Нина Воронель – Природа сама сочиняет стихи
- Haiku: His Little Drum by Monty Gilmer
- These Little Songs by William Allingham
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- The Queen’s Marie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- The Dunciad: Book III. poem – Alexander Pope
- Константин Бальмонт – Черный и белый
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.