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:
- To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Не выращивай в сердце печали росток
- Омар Хайям – Долго ль спину придется мне гнуть или нет
- Олег Григорьев – Картинка
- A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. by Walt Whitman
- Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
- Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
- Robert Burns: Prologue: Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787
- Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta
- Алексей Плещеев – Сон
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Night poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Заболоцкий – Шакалы
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- MOURNING by Satish Verma
- Moony Affair by Satish Verma
- Monument by Satish Verma
- Metaphysical View by Satish Verma
- MANY NAMESAKES by Satish Verma
- Lying on a Slab by Satish Verma
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
- Live Baits by Satish Verma
- Listening To Rwanda Genocide by Satish Verma
- INTO THE LAIR by Satish Verma
- Intimidation by Satish Verma
- In Transit by Satish Verma
- In Thoughtless Mind by Satish Verma
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Impresa by Satish Verma
- Immaculacy by Satish Verma
- I Begin To Think by Satish Verma
- Hurting Dive by Satish Verma
- Homing by Satish Verma
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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.