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:
- You by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The Tame Bird Was In A Cage by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Сологуб – Я часть загадки разгадал
- As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pheasant by Sylvia Plath
- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
- Epitaph on Wm. Graham, Esq., of Mossknowe by Robert Burns
- Shrodon Feäir by William Barnes
- Sonnet Xiii
- Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner:
- Альфред де Мюссе – Что так усиленно сердце больное
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- Three Women by Sylvia Plath
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.