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 Hero — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Парня спасём, парня в детдом
- Аля Кудряшева – Осень в городе
- Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens
- What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, чтоб праздник перешел и в будни
- A Cliff Dwelling by Robert Frost
- What Hidden Sweetness Is There by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In Absence. by Sidney Lanier
- Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn:
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope
- Everlasting Wander by Rixa White
- Hush’d be the Camps To-day. by Walt Whitman
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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.