A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Oh, you are more desirable to me
Than all I staked in an impulsive hour,
Making my youth the sport of chance, to be
Blighted or torn in its most perfect flower;
For I think less of what that chance may bring
Than how, before returning into fire,
To make my dearest memory of the thing
That is but now my ultimate desire.
And in old times I should have prayed to her
Whose haunt the groves of windy Cyprus were,
To prosper me and crown with good success
My will to make of you the rose-twined bowl
From whose inebriating brim my soul
Shall drink its last of earthly happiness.
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External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Verdad Innegable by Victoria Luisa Mora Paoli
- Unsaid by Victoria Bukofske
- Unapologetic by Vikrant Sapkota
- To share by Victor A. Bueno M.
- Thrones In Heaven by Victoria Rose
- They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
- The Terrible Abstractions by Vernon Scannell
- The Men Who Wear My Clothes by Vernon Scannell
- The Loving Game by Vernon Scannell
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- NOCHE MARINA by Victoria l.mora paoli
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- Nettles by Vernon Scannell
- My Journey by Vikki Bonyata
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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.