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:
- Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
- Robert Burns: Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart: With The Lament On The Death Of the Earl Of Glencairn
- Владимир Вишневский – Как некстати или срыв спецоперации
- At Sea poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Набоков – Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
- Inscription at Friars’ Carse Hermitage by Robert Burns
- Геннадий Айги – Дом в поле
- Gazing at the Sacred Peak by Tu Fu
- A Poet! He Hath Put His Heart To School by William Wordsworth
- Epigram to Miss Jean Scott by Robert Burns
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- Юлия Друнина – Елка
- Adieu poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Олег Бундур – Яблоко
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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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.