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:
- Наум Коржавин – Мне без тебя так трудно жить
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet CXI by William Shakespeare
- Николай Некрасов – Внимая ужасам войны
- Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel by Sappho
- Dedication To M… by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
- Song—The Fall of the Leaf by Robert Burns
- A Farewell by William Wordsworth
- Eclogue:–A Ghost by William Barnes
- Владимир Британишский – Как из конного двора
- Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- Вера Звягинцева – Околдовано сердце моё
- Владимир Маяковский – Ужасающая фамильярность
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
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- Вера Звягинцева – Психея
- Вера Звягинцева – Пойдёте пешком на кладбище
- Вера Звягинцева – Околдовано сердце моё
- Вера Звягинцева – Не пастушка и не Психея
- Вера Звягинцева – На смерть Есенина
- Вера Звягинцева – Моя любовь к Армении похожа
- Вера Звягинцева – Летите, летите зелёные долы
- Вера Звягинцева – Карусель
- Вера Звягинцева – Качаешься в гробу стеклянном
- Вера Звягинцева – Другу-переводчику
- Вера Звягинцева – А если ты любишь не можешь
- Вергилий – Скопа
- Вергилий – Лидия
- Вергилий – Георгики
- Вергилий – Буколики
- Вероника Тушнова – Молчание
- Вероника Тушнова – Мне говорят, нету такой любви
- Вероника Тушнова – Мать
- Вероника Тушнова – Люблю
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.