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:
- The Little Boy And The Old Man by Shel Silverstein
- Flutter by Rashmi Sreekumar
- A Hedge Of Rubber Trees poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Darest Thou Now, O Soul. by Walt Whitman
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare
- Auld Maitland poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Степанов – Лисички
- An ode to you by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Douglas Tragedy poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Рубцов – Ветер всхлипывал, словно дитя
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: Jessie’s illness
- Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- Alone You Passed by William Ellery Leonard
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.