A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Thy petals yet are closely curled,
Rose of the world,
Around their scented, golden core;
Nor yet has Summer purpled o’er
Thy tender clusters that begin
To swell within
The dewy vine-leaves’ early screen
Of sheltering green.
O hearts that are Love’s helpless prey,
While yet you may,
Fly, ere the shaft is on the string!
The fire that now is smouldering
Shall be the conflagration soon
Whose paths are strewn
With torment of blanched lips and eyes
That agonize.

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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
- I Shout Love by Milton Acorn
- I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel
- I Just Wanna Make You Mine Girl by Miraj Patel
- I Just Wanna Be Your Number One by Miraj Patel
- I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel
- I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel
- I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel
- Househunting by Mike Yuan
- Hiking by Mike Yuan
- Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan
- Global Warning by Mike Yuan
- Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
- Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas
- Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
- East Idioms (1): A Fable by Mike Yuan
- Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel
- Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee
- Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson
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.