On Pilgrimage

Oh, youthful bearer of my palanquin,

Thy glossy hair lies loosened on thy neck,

The “tears of labour” gem thy velvet skin,

Whose even texture knows no other fleck.

Thy slender shoulder strains beneath my weight;

Too fair thou art for work, sweet slave of mine.

Would that this idle breast, reversing fate,

A willing serf to love, supported thine!

I smell the savage scent of sun-warmed fur

Close in the Jungle, musky, hot and sweet.–

The air comes from thy shoulder, even as myrrh,

Would we were as the panthers, free to meet.

The Temple road is steep; I grieve to see

Thy slender ankles bruised among the clods.

Oh, my Beloved, if I might worship thee!

Beauty is greater far than all the Gods.

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Poems in English 

• La Nue by Alan Seeger
• Kyrenaikos by Alan Seeger
• Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger
• I Loved by Alan Seeger
• I Have A Rendezvous With Death by Alan Seeger
• Fragments by Alan Seeger
• Eudaemon by Alan Seeger
• El Extraviado by Alan Seeger
• Do You Remember Once by Alan Seeger
• Coucy by Alan Seeger
• Champagne 1914 15 by Alan Seeger
• Broceliande by Alan Seeger
• Bellinglise by Alan Seeger
• At The Tomb Of Napoleon by Alan Seeger
• Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99 by Alan Seeger
• Antinous by Alan Seeger
• An Ode To Antares by Alan Seeger
• All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger
• After An Epigram Of Clement Marot by Alan Seeger
• A Message To America by Alan Seeger

More external links (open in a new tab):

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Doska or the Board – write anything

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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.

 

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