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:
- Epigram on Mr. James Gracie by Robert Burns
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet CXI by William Shakespeare
- Duns Scotus’s Oxford poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Альфред де Мюссе – Друзья мои! Когда умру я
- Grace by Sappho
- Cloudy Sky by Shel Silverstein
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На берегу
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сознание
- The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты рукой мне сжала сердце
- Ольга Берггольц – Ни до серебряной и ни до золотой
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- Владимир Маяковский – О патриархе Тихоне
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.