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:
- Владимир Гиппиус – Закон чего? – закона нет
- Suicide Off Egg Rock by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Не знаю, не знаю, живу
- Владимир Высоцкий – В холода, в холода
- In The Event Of My Demise by Tupac Shakur
- Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- I Hear America Singing. by Walt Whitman
- Epistle to Hugh Parker by Robert Burns
- A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
- Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Николай Гумилев – Заводи
- Cult of Lynching by Satish Verma
- Вероника Тушнова – Костер
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.