A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
If I was drawn here from a distant place,
‘Twas not to pray nor hear our friend’s address,
But, gazing once more on your winsome face,
To worship there Ideal Loveliness.
On that pure shrine that has too long ignored
The gifts that once I brought so frequently
I lay this votive offering, to record
How sweet your quiet beauty seemed to me.
Enchanting girl, my faith is not a thing
By futile prayers and vapid psalm-singing
To vent in crowded nave and public pew.
My creed is simple: that the world is fair,
And beauty the best thing to worship there,
And I confess it by adoring you.
A few random poems:
- The Generals by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Вишневский – Я желаю вам громких успехов
- An Old Doll
- athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
- Омар Хайям – Никто не лицезрел ни рая, ни геенны
- Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division.
- Robert Burns: Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor:
- Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth by William Shakespeare
- Matter For Gratitude poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet I by William Shakespeare
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Татаринову (Здорово, брат! Поставь сюда две чаши)
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не могу ни выпить, ни забыться
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.