A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows ’twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear…
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
A few random poems:
- The Journey by Yvor Winters
- The Recall by Rudyard Kipling
- Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
- Atavism by William Stafford
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth by William Shakespeare
- We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- The Geography of the House by W H Auden
- Владислав Ходасевич – Нет, молодость, ты мне была верна
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про первые ряды
- To the Right Hon. The Earl of Halifax , with the Fable of the Two Springs by William Somervile
- Какое имя чудное Валерия
- Кариночка, любимая ты наша
- Владимир Гиляровский – На Севере
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь материальную базу
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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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.