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:
- Portrait of Rage and Age poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Empowering Women in Gambia
- Омар Хайям – И сиянье рая, и ада огни
- The Passing Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- My Mask poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- Song—O let me in this ae night by Robert Burns
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Shadow of Crows by Ndue Ukaj
- Weaving waves by Shailendra Singh
- Иван Дмитриев – Сверчки
- When Trust Fails… by Olaniyi Beloved Abimbola
- Obscurity, the Essay and Poems on Obscurity by Abraham Cowley
- To a Lady, Who Made Me a Present of a Silver Pen by William Somervile
- A Dream (English Translation) by Rabindranath Tagore
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.