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:
- Алишер Навои – Птицу-сердце полонила нежных локонов силком
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton:
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
- Низами Гянджеви – В привычке сердца воровать ты
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- Василий Жуковский – На смерть Андрея Тургенева
- A Spot by Thomas Hardy
- It was an April morning: fresh and clear by William Wordsworth
- The Wanderer by Sara Teasdale
- Стефан Малларме – В идоложертвенном ликующем костре
- Mortal Words by Robert McNamara
- Владислав Крапивин – А по ночам у высокого плетня
- September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
- Ольга Седакова – Актеон
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.