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:
- At Sea poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Аля Кудряшева – Зима застыла среди теней
- The Road by Siegfried Sassoon
- Василий Тредиаковский – В сем озере бедные любовники
- I love you by Inganathi Ntantiso
- Олег Григорьев – Двустишия
- The Palace
- Ольга Ермолаева – Просила тебя у мертвой и выпросила у мертвой
- Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- A Night Thought by William Wordsworth
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка про ребёнка-поросёнка
- Ballade Of Autumn poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Гумилев – За гробом
- Наум Коржавин – Никакой истерики
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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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.