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:
- Lady Anne Bothwell’s Lament poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Омар Хайям – Лучше пить и веселых красавиц ласкать
- Алексей Жемчужников – Весна
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вид гор из степей Козлова
- Robert Burns: Green Grow The Rashes: A Fragment
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Атону
- Lessons. by Walt Whitman
- Sonet 48 by William Alexander
- Blue Period by Shaunna Harper
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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.