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:
- March Evening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman by Phillis Wheatley
- Years of the Modern. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: My Bonie Bell:
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
- Epitaph
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Eclogues by Thomas Chatterton
- Кондратий Рылеев – Как солнце ни блестит и как оно ни светит
- Last Words by Philip Levine
- To Be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee by William Butler Yeats
- Universal Prayer poem – Alexander Pope
- The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия – страна земледельческая… (РОСТА №874)
- Beautiful Balmerino by William Topaz McGonagall
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.