A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o’er
Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom
A savor steals from linden trees in bloom
And gardens ranged at many a palace door.
Proud walls rise here, and, where the moonbeams pour
Their pale enchantment down the dim coast-line,
Terrace and lawn, trim hedge and flowering vine,
Crown with fair culture all the sounding shore.
How sweet, to such a place, on such a night,
From halls with beauty and festival a-glare,
To come distract and, stretched on the cool turf,
Yield to some fond, improbable delight,
While the moon, reddening, sinks, and all the air
Sighs with the muffled tumult of the surf!
A few random poems:
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- The Elphin Nourrice poem – Andrew Lang poems
- “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Song—Anna, thy Charms by Robert Burns
- A dream is a butterfly poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- What Was Lost by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Алишер Навои – Сверкнула в темноте ночной краса
- Spirit That Form’d This Scene. by Walt Whitman
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дафнис и Алцимадура
- Approach Of Summer by William Lisle Bowles
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lament of the Frontier Guard poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Scotch Drink :
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 Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Christian poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- With a Book poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Weather poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rimer poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry
- Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Elegy poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Inion poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Alone poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Beer
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.