A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Not that I always struck the proper mean
Of what mankind must give for what they gain,
But, when I think of those whom dull routine
And the pursuit of cheerless toil enchain,
Who from their desk-chairs seeing a summer cloud
Race through blue heaven on its joyful course
Sigh sometimes for a life less cramped and bowed,
I think I might have done a great deal worse;
For I have ever gone untied and free,
The stars and my high thoughts for company;
Wet with the salt-spray and the mountain showers,
I have had the sense of space and amplitude,
And love in many places, silver-shoed,
Has come and scattered all my path with flowers.

A few random poems:
- Extinguish Thou My Eyes by Rainer Maria Rilke
 - Владимир Маяковский – Стихи из предсмертной записки
 - Northern Farmer: New Style poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Rose Of Peace by William Butler Yeats
 - Nay Not To Night
 - Oonts by Rudyard Kipling
 - The Two Churches by William Barnes
 - Ольга Седакова – Я жизнь в порыве жить
 - Fault by Sara Teasdale
 - Parody on a Haiku by Issa by Monty Gilmer
 - Владимир Корнилов – Нищий
 - It Will Not Change by Sara Teasdale
 - Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Константин Бальмонт – Над морем
 - Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney
 
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
- Юрий Галансков – Мне больно
 - Юрий Галансков – Человеческий манифест
 - Юрий Галансков стихи: читать все стихотворения, поэмы поэта Юрий Галансков – Поэзия на Poetry Monster
 - Юрий Энтин – Слово про слово
 - Юрий Левитанский – Не брести мне сушею
 - Юрий Левитанский – Мое поколение
 - Юрий Левитанский – Кто-то так уже писал
 - Юрий Левитанский – Кинематограф
 - Юрий Левитанский – Как зарок от суесловья, как залог
 - Юрий Левитанский – Иронический человек
 - Юрий Левитанский – Грач над березовой чащей
 - Юрий Левитанский – Диалог у новогодней елки
 - Юрий Левитанский – Что я знаю про стороны света
 - Юрий Левитанский – Человек, строящий воздушные замки
 - Юрий Левитанский – Белый снег
 - Юрий Верховский – Зачем, паук, уходишь торопливо
 - Юрий Верховский – Вариации на тему Пушкина
 - Юрий Верховский – В майское утро
 - Юрий Верховский – Судьба с судьбой
 - Юрий Верховский – Рождественскою ночью
 
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.