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 10
- 30th Birthday poem – Alice Notley
- cinema_screen.html
- Lucid Dreams by Talha Jafri
- Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Все давайте советской республике, все получите от советской республики (РОСТА № 293)
- Николай Глазков – Размышленья
- Song—A Fiddler in the North by Robert Burns
- First let the kennel be the huntsman’s care by William Somervile
- Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: a shepherd poet
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Вместо нас
- The Elphin Nourrice poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet:
- A Christmas Carol poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.