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:
- Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я трогал листы эвкалипта
- Robert Burns: Wee Willie Gray:
- Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis by William Cowper
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- Flowers notebook
- Al calor de una guitarra by Mara Romero Torres
- Владимир Высоцкий – От скучных шабашей смертельно уставши
- “Advance – Come Forth From Thy Tyrolean Ground” by William Wordsworth
- Rogue Elephant poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Address to Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- Константин Бальмонт – Электрон
- Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Komori by T. Wignesan
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 Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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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.