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.

A few random poems:
- A Voice
 - Владимир Британишский – Сон: в детстве, весной, в лесу
 - Ballade Of The Royal Game Of Golf poem – Andrew Lang poems
 - Константин Бальмонт – На мотив экклезиаста
 - The Monkey by Shel Silverstein
 - Георгий Иванов – Аспазия, всегда Аспазия
 - Bucolics by Sylvia Plath
 - A Deep Sworn Vow by William Butler Yeats
 - Омар Хайям – Что плоть твоя, Хайям?
 - How Long by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 - Наум Коржавин – Он собирался многое свершить
 - As At Thy Portals Also Death. by Walt Whitman
 - To a Lady, Who Made Me a Present of a Silver Pen by William Somervile
 - The First Chantey by Rudyard Kipling
 - Огюст Барбье – Тициан
 
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
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Northern Farmer: New Style poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Move Eastward, Happy Earth poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Morte D’Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Minnie and Winnie poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Mariana In The South poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Mariana poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Lucretius poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Locksley Hall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Lilian poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Late, Late, So Late poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Lady Clare poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. HIn Memoriam A. H. H.: 56. So careful of the type? but no.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 
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.