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:
- The Investiture by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Thorns In The Geäte by William Barnes
- Альфред де Мюссе – Слова отчаянья прекрасней всех других
- The Hope of the Resurrection by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты не пошел на фронт бить барона?.. (РОСТА №451)
- Stray Pleasures by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- The Fearful by Sylvia Plath
- Вера Полозкова – Манипенни, твой мальчик, видно, неотвратим
- Омар Хайям – Кто мне скажет что завтра случится со мной
- Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Бундур – Утром
- In An Underground Dressing Station by Siegfried Sassoon
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Весёлый воробей
- Closure by Suchi Gaur
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
- Piera Chen – Piera Chen
- IN VINCULUM by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- I threaded a garland with the memories of a spring… by Preeth Nambiar
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna
- Frozen by Priyanka Tungana
- From Another Sky by Pierre Reverdy
- Forgotten by Priya Prithviraj
- Forbidden Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- Elijah by Peter Bardsley
- Eating a Wampee by Piera Chen
- Dying Love!!! by Praveen Parasar
- Diving Deep by Pawan Kumar
- Dead On Arrival by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Creators by Pawan Kumar
- Composition by Peter Cooley
- Coconut by Paul Hostovsky
- Childhood Memories by Preethi Saravanakumar
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.