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:
- Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Как прекрасны все цветы
- Владимир Костров – Душа, не кайся и не майся
- WARMING UP by Satish Verma
- Николай Карамзин – К Дмитриеву (Многие барды, лиру настроив)
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Врангеля мы добили… (РОСТА №621)
- The Palace of Art poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Омар Хайям – Лучше впасть в нищету, голодать или красть
- Владимир Маяковский – Промедление – смерть (Главполитпросвет №339)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – С могучей страстию в мучительной борьбе
- The Garden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – Причина разногласия
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.