A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
There have been times when I could storm and plead,
But you shall never hear me supplicate.
These long months that have magnified my need
Have made my asking less importunate,
For now small favors seem to me so great
That not the courteous lovers of old time
Were more content to rule themselves and wait,
Easing desire with discourse and sweet rhyme.
Nay, be capricious, willful; have no fear
To wound me with unkindness done or said,
Lest mutual devotion make too dear
My life that hangs by a so slender thread,
And happy love unnerve me before May
For that stern part that I have yet to play.
A few random poems:
- A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace by John Oxenham
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns
- Stanzas. In A Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – О мудрец, если тот или этот дурак
- Down on the Shore by William Allingham
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на день восшествия на престол Ее Величества 1753 года
- Two Sonnets On Fame poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Не предаваясь “большевистским бредням” (Красный перец)
- The Song of the Little Hunter by Rudyard Kipling
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- London in July poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs by Robert Burns
- The Dream by Sylvia Plath
- The City That Will Not Repent by Vachel Lindsay
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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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.