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:
- Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song) by Robert Burns
- Ок Мельникова – Моя муза любитель блюза
- Омар Хайям – Благородные люди, друг друга любя
- God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
- In a Vale by Robert Frost
- The Gardener LI: Then Finish the Last Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Contradictions poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Anna, thy Charms by Robert Burns
- The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Негибнущий аромат
- Robert Burns: The Braw Wooer:
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
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.