A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say:
Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess,
And fertile lowlands lengthening far away,
In Lyonesse.
Came a term to that land’s old favoredness:
Past the sea-walls, crumbled in thundering spray,
Rolled the green waves, ravening, merciless.
Through bearded boughs immobile in cool decay,
Where sea-bloom covers corroding palaces,
The mermaid glides with a curious glance to-day,
In Lyonesse.
A few random poems:
- Winter – The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne poem – Alexander Pope
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XIV. Fly, Some Kind Haringer, To Grasmere-Dale by William Wordsworth
- February by Thomas Chatterton
- Essay On The Personal by Stephen Dunn
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience by William Cowper
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) by William Cowper
- Стефан Малларме – Записка Уистлеру
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit by Robert Burns
- Юлия Жадовская – Всё ты уносишь, нещадное время
- The Kiss by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня из радиоспектакля “Зелёный фургон”
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.