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 Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
- Николай Языков – Аделаиде (Я твой, я твой, Аделаида)
- Salvage poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Старой знакомке
- Aftermath poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- This Will Not Win Him by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Wanderer
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- The Light o’ the Moon by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? by William Shakespeare
- STONEWASHED by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Чичерин и тралеры отдает и прочее
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- Федор Сологуб – Сладко мечтается мне
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
- Leaving and Leaving You by Sophie Hannah
- If It Were Beginning by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Hypatia by Stanley Wilkin
- Homosexuality by Spencer Reece
- Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
- High school crush……lonesome awaits by Stephen Allen
- God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
- Family by Stacey Chillemi
- Everything He Did, He Did In Jest by stanley wilkin
- Entropy by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Disconnect by Snowdon King
- Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
- Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Beautiful Moroccan by Stanley Wilkin
- Ambrosia by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Adaptation by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
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.