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:
- I saw Old General at Bay. by Walt Whitman
- Василий Жуковский – Гомер
- Nothing is Real by Rixa White
- Robert Burns: She Says She Loes Me Best Of A’:
- Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
- Epigram on Dr. Babington’s looks by Robert Burns
- The Solitary by Sara Teasdale
- Стефан Малларме – Записка Уистлеру
- Waldenses by William Wordsworth
- Weathering poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Love Sonnet XLIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Серые! К вам орем вниз мы… (РОСТА №313)
- What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.