A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence
I have no doubt but, like a homing dove,
It would return to its dear residence,
And through a thousand stars find out the road
Back into earthly flesh that was its loved abode.
A few random poems:
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Орлов – Что нельзя купить
- Zummer Evenèn Dance by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux:
- Planet Earth by P. K. Page
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий корреспондент
- I Deserve It by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Iowa City: Early April by Robert Hass
- “While with fond rapture and amaze” by Tobias Smollett
- In Praise of Their Divorce by Tony Hoagland
- Olney Hymn 39: The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death by William Cowper
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Киклоп драма сатиров (перевод)
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.