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:
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- Quest for Thee by Vanessa Perkins
- Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
- For Him I Sing. by Walt Whitman
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- Вера Звягинцева – Летите, летите зелёные долы
- Омар Хайям – Что жизнь
- Владимир Маяковский – Подписи к рисункам в журнале “ВОБ”
- The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House by Rudyard Kipling
- Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
- O Man by Pawan Kumar
- An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Британишский – От низменного к неземному
- A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.