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:
- Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
- Стефан Малларме – О, зеркало
- Loon Point poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats poem – John Keats poems
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. In Examination. Руперт Брук.
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Иван Козлов – Умирающая Эрменгарда
- Ghazal 119 by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet: Before He Went poem – John Keats poems
- Seven Deadly Signs of Poetry Scams
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- Олег Григорьев – Дети кидали друг в друга поленья
- The Madness Of King Goll by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Death and Doctor Hornbook : A True Story
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
- I am the earthworm, Lord of the Underworld by Raj Arumugam
- I am content here by Raj Arumugam
- How I saved Planet Earth by Raj Arumugam
- how far are you? by Raj Arumugam
- how did poetry begin? by Raj Arumugam
- Hey birds by Raj Arumugam
- Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View by Raj Arumugam
- gum tree loved by the sky by Raj Arumugam
- good bye, my sweet angel by Raj Arumugam
- four legs good, two legs badOwl Hoots and Grasshopper Sings by Raj Arumugam
- four legs good, two legs bad by Raj Arumugam
- five moons for earth by Raj Arumugam
- Female ghost in the moonlight by Raj Arumugam
- emotional bond by Raj Arumugam
- doughnuts for sale by Raj Arumugam
- different lovers by Raj Arumugam
- did you die, Ophelia? by Raj Arumugam
- dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam
- dear moon, you will understand by Raj Arumugam
- days of quiet by Raj Arumugam
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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.