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:
- I Awake and Choose To Live by P.J.Reed
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица, Мухи и Еж
- Robert Burns: Monody: On a lady famed for her Caprice.
- Her Anxiety by William Butler Yeats
- Yarrow Visited by William Wordsworth
- To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper
- To the State of Love. Or the Senses’ Festival. By John Cleveland
- “What ails you, Ocean, that nor near nor far” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вход воспрещается
- A Watch Sent Home To Mrs. Eliz: King, Wrapt In Theis Verses by William Strode
- The Empty Boats by Vachel Lindsay
- Old Homeless Man by Walter William Safar
- Whispers of Heavenly Death. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Жемчужников – Забудь их шумное волненье
- Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster
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Poems in English
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Twins by Vinko Kalinić
- To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
- Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
- Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- Peddler Road Flyover by Vinita Agrawal
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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.