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:
- Robert Burns: The Inventory: In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes
- A March Afternoon poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Squirrel by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Recessional (A Victorian Ode) by Rudyard Kipling
- Caledonia: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Степан Щипачев – Тебе
- The First Part: Sonnet 11 – Lamp of heaven’s crystal hall that brings the hours, by William Drummond
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- To Youth by Robert Herrick
- Валерий Брюсов – Дворец любви
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Олег Бундур – Аппетит
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, шахтер! (РОСТА №894)
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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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.