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.

A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Said Occasion [On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- Владимир Маяковский – Глупая история
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope
- To The Serpent
- A Sculptor’s Vow by Nikhil Srinivas
- A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- October by William Cullen Bryant
- Robert Burns: The Book-Worms:
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Фронту помог ты… (РОСТА №444)
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Vision of the Archangels. Руперт Брук.
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи к портрету И.И. Дмитриева (Министр, поэт и друг)
- “Wishing to float” by Seema Gupta
- Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town by T. S. Eliot
- Sonnet XI. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.