A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down
In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;
Twine yellow roses for the drinker’s crown;
Let music reach and fair heads circle me,
Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer
Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news
Of merchant cities seek our harbors here,
Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse;
But here, with love and sleep in her caress,
Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade
The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, —
Night-winds, and one whose white youth’s loveliness,
In a flowered balcony beside me laid,
Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.

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- What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Встреча
- The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Sort Of A Song by William Carlos Williams
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Break of Day by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Толстой – В колокол, мирно дремавший, с налета тяжелая бомба
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- Memory by William Wordsworth
- Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song) by Robert Burns
- O Star of France. by Walt Whitman
- As Dies The Year poem – Alfred Austin
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- I threaded a garland with the memories of a spring… by Preeth Nambiar
- The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
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Poems in English
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- The Tom Toms
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- The Teak Forest
- The Singer
- The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation
- The Rice Was Under Water
- The Rice Boat
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- The Rao Of Ilore
- The Plains
- The Net Of Memory
- The Masters
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
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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.