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 Бенедиктов – Калиф и раб
- Иида Дакоцу – Сложено на вечере поэзии хайку в храме Номандзи
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Михаил Лермонтов – Без вас хочу сказать вам много
- Алексей Хомяков – Раскаявшейся России
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- Владимир Маяковский – Для чего оттягивают паны мириться?.. (РОСТА №264)
- Near Avalon by William Morris
- Night dyes its hair by Vladimir Marku
- The Key Role of Creativity in Advertising
- Nevermore, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: Nevermore by T. Wignesan
- Владимир Высоцкий – Слева бесы, справа бесы
- Ольга Берггольц – О, где ты запела
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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.