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:
- Hare-hunting by William Somervile
- A Goodnight by William Carlos Williams
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- the_world.html
- My Sad Self poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken by Vachel Lindsay
- Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell by Robert Burns
- THE ROAD OF ANGEL poem – kapardeli eftichia poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Заболоцкий – Кулак, владыка батраков
- Rimini by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Карамзин – Луизе в день ее рождения 13 генваря, при вручении ей подарка
- Shall I like An Eternal World by Nithin Purple
- A Song. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Despondency: An Ode:
- Владимир Степанов – Суворовец
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.