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:
- Яков Полонский – Нищий
- Hospital Barge At Cerisy by Wilfred Owen
- Илья Эренбург – Я слышу всё, и горестные шепоты
- Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye by William Shakespeare
- Олег Григорьев – Совершенно откровенно
- Юлия Друнина – Бежала от морозов, вот беда
- The Battle Of Killie-Crankie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Edom O’ Gordon poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Epitaph on the same by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly:
- Fears In Solitude by Samuel Coleridge
- I Will by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Юлия Друнина – Я горожанка
- The Ballad of the King’s Jest by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Дом Герцена
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.