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:
- Владимир Набоков – Простая песня, грусть простая
- Spontaneous Me. by Walt Whitman
- women picking edible plants by Raj Arumugan
- The Immigrant
- Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову
- Владимир Маяковский – Военно-морская любовь
- What’s wrong with volunteering?
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) by William Shakespeare
- Lyonesse
- Николай Гумилев – На далекой звезде Венере
- An Improvisation For Angular Momentum poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Easter Morning poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Gardener XLIV: Reverend Sir, Forgive by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- Lallji My Desire
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.