A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
I loved illustrious cities and the crowds
That eddy through their incandescent nights.
I loved remote horizons with far clouds
Girdled, and fringed about with snowy heights.
I loved fair women, their sweet, conscious ways
Of wearing among hands that covet and plead
The rose ablossom at the rainbow’s base
That bounds the world’s desire and all its need.
Nature I worshipped, whose fecundity
Embraces every vision the most fair,
Of perfect benediction. From a boy
I gloated on existence. Earth to me
Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there
One trembling opportunity for joy.
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External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- The Fool Rings His Bells by Walter de la Mare
- Tartary by Walter de la Mare
- Sunk Lyonesse by Walter de la Mare
- Some One by Walter de la Mare
- Silver by Walter de la Mare
- Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
- Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
- November by Walter de la Mare
- Music by Walter de la Mare
- Miss Loo by Walter de la Mare
- Melmillo by Walter de la Mare
- How Sleep the Brave by Walter de la Mare
- Good-bye by Walter de la Mare
- Full Moon by Walter de la Mare
- Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
- Bones by Walter de la Mare
- At Ease by Walter de la Mare
- Alone by Walter de la Mare
- All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
- Alexander by Walter de la Mare
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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.