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:
- Untitled XII by Yunus Emre
- The Kingfisher poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Lover’s Gifts IV: She Is Near to My Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
- Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наброски песен к несостоявшемуся спектаклю по сказкам Шергина
- Readen Ov A Head-Stwone by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ Mair:
- A Girl’s Garden by Robert Frost
- four legs good, two legs badOwl Hoots and Grasshopper Sings by Raj Arumugam
- Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel by Philip Larkin
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Владимир Лифшиц – Баллада о черством куске
- Home Is So Sad by Philip Larkin
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.