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:
- Baile And Aillinn by William Butler Yeats
- Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
- Fragments
- Ways to Make Money Online Easily for Free – 4 Important Tips to Make Money Online
- Юлий Даниэль – А в это время
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- Зинаида Александрова – Давайте, девочки, купаться
- A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master by Sidney Lanier
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s Victory:
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Не таи в своем сердце обид и скорбей
- My Dear Old Mother by Walter William Safar
- To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation by Phillis Wheatley
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.