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:
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
 - Николай Гумилев – Неоромантическая сказка
 - Before, Behind, And Beyond poem – Alfred Austin
 - Half The People In The World by Yehuda Amichai
 - To Mrs Reynolds’ Cat poem – John Keats poems
 - Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
 - Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
 - The Poisoned Present
 - Prospective Immigrants Please Note
 - In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
 - Новелла Матвеева – Художник, незнакомый с поощреньем
 - Виталий Сивяков – Крещенье
 - Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда вдали от суеты всемирной
 - Valgovinds Song In The Spring
 - When She Cries by Shel Silverstein
 
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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Коломенское
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
 
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.