A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Why should you be astonished that my heart,
Plunged for so long in darkness and in dearth,
Should be revived by you, and stir and start
As by warm April now, reviving Earth?
I am the field of undulating grass
And you the gentle perfumed breath of Spring,
And all my lyric being, when you pass,
Is bowed and filled with sudden murmuring.
I asked you nothing and expected less,
But, with that deep, impassioned tenderness
Of one approaching what he most adores,
I only wished to lose a little space
All thought of my own life, and in its place
To live and dream and have my joy in yours.

A few random poems:
- Валерий Брюсов – Из латинской антологии (Нежный стихов аромат услаждает безделие девы)
- It’s no use by Sappho
- Sir Hugh; Or The Jew’s Daughter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Children’s Taste by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Нина Воронель – Мой дед был слепым
- Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
- Владимир Маяковский – Нечеловеческой силы требовала война… (Главполитпросвет №285)
- Souvenirs of Democracy. by Walt Whitman
- Иван Варавва – Выйду в степь, на поля плодородные
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- When Runnels Began To Leap And Sing poem – Alfred Austin
- The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race by Vachel Lindsay
- April Is The Saddest Month by William Carlos Williams
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
- the-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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.