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:
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночь в лесу
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
- Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
- Алексей Толстой – Шумит на дворе непогода
- It’s the Wrong Address by peggy boone
- Me’th Below The Tree by William Barnes
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
- Яков Полонский – Ночь в Крыму
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.