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.
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- The Ghosts of past, the Angels of future by Vyshnav Shabu Nair
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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
- Love Sonnet X poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Love Sonnet LVIII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Books poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Love Sonnet LIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- You’re The Only One poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster
- The Senses of Art poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- The Details Are poem – Zhivka Baltadzhieva poems | Poetry Monster
- The 9th Inning poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
- Sabbath, My Love poem – Yehudah ha-Levi poems | Poetry Monster
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.