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:
- Whose beer is that? A Poem about Beer.
- The Human Tragedy ACT II poem – Alfred Austin
- Валерий Брюсов – Еврейским девушкам
- Robert Burns: The Wounded Hare:
- “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
- You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Маяковский – Не юбилейте
- Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
- In Due Observance Of An Ancient Rite by William Wordsworth
- The Castle By The River by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- The Dunciad: Book III. poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Британишский – Аркадия
- Show It At The Beach by Shel Silverstein
- Battle Of Brunanburgh poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.