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:
- Knowing God Part 1 – Finding God, Knowing Him, and Doing His Works
- November 1813 by William Wordsworth
- Вера Павлова – Торчащее обтесать
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 4. by William Cowper
- Шекспир – Бессмертную хоронят красоту – Сонет 83
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Sonnet LXXI by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Вишневский – Долго же мы друг друга откладывали
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lass Of Albany:
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Ballade Of Sleep poem – Andrew Lang poems
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.