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:
- How To Use Vellum For Your Card Making Ideas
- Epistle to John Rankine by Robert Burns
- Silvia by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Седакова – Вениамин
- Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
- Les Roses de Sâdi poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Шакалы
- Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel by Walter Savage Landor
- TOELESS JOURNEY by Satish Verma
- A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling
- Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Михаил Кузмин – Возможно ль: скоро четверть века
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.