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:
- PLEADING by Satish Verma
- Sonnet. The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems
- The missing pen by Ross D Tyler
- Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr by Robert Burns
- I Went Down into the Desert by Vachel Lindsay
- And their feet move by Sappho
- The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes by William Butler Yeats
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Forgetting Someone by Yehuda Amichai
- Ballad of the Old Cypress by Tu Fu
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Предостережение
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 34. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
- Михаил Лермонтов – Валерик
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.