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 Happy Lunatic by William Somervile
 - English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Going for the Cows. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
 - Lovers on Aran by Seamus Heaney
 - Song I: Though the World Be A-Waning by William Morris
 - A Bucolic Betwixt Two; Lacon and Thyrsis by Robert Herrick
 - Testing The Bomb by Shel Silverstein
 - The Madness Of King Goll by William Butler Yeats
 - Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
 - Lord, what a Beloved is mine! by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 - The Blue Scarf poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Monday by Vishü Rita Krocha
 - Morpheus poem – Alexander Pushkin
 - Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Лесная дева
 - The Current by Raymond Carver
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Вот раньше жизнь
 
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
- All Things Will Die poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - A Farewell poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - Villanelle: The Psychological Hour poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - Ts’ai Chi’h poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - These Fought in Any Case poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Tree poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Seafarer poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Return poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Plunge poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Needle poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Garret poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - The Garden poem – Ezra Pound poems
 
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.