A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Down the strait vistas where a city street
Fades in pale dust and vaporous distances,
Stained with far fumes the light grows less and less
And the sky reddens round the day’s retreat.
Now out of orient chambers, cool and sweet,
Like Nature’s pure lustration, Dusk comes down.
Now the lamps brighten and the quickening town
Rings with the trample of returning feet.
And Pleasure, risen from her own warm mould
Sunk all the drowsy and unloved daylight
In layers of odorous softness, Paphian girls
Cover with gauze, with satin, and with pearls,
Crown, and about her spangly vestments fold
The ermine of the empire of the Night.

A few random poems:
- Detached Living by P.J.Reed
- The Connaught Rangers by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не заманишь меня на эстрадный концерт
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci poem – John Keats poems
- That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Homecoming of Love on the Sands by Rafael Alberti
- what I want to know by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Я знаю, люблю я бесплодно
- Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander
- Виктор Гусев – Октябрьский смотр
- Dawlish Fair poem – John Keats poems
- In The Evening
- Валерий Брюсов – К.Д. Бальмонту (Вечно вольный, вечно юный)
- A Captive Throstle poem – Alfred Austin
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
- My Eyes in the Time of Apparition by Rachel McKibbens
- Mrs. Mouse has glasses by R. L. KARLOWSKY
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
- Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky
- Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens
- Meditation by Radames Antonio Cruz
- Manipulation by Radames Antonio Cruz
- intertwined by rachel wright
- I Hardly Remember by Rafael Guillen
- Homecoming of Love on the Sands by Rafael Alberti
- Hex by Rachel McKibbens
- From Marinero en tierra by Rafael Alberti
- EVENING… by R.M. Engelhardt
- El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen
- Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949 by Rachel McKibbens
- zen: a very short history by Raj Arumugam
- you witness my dying by Raj Arumugam
- you say you love the earth by Raj Arumugam
- you are there moon by Raj Arumugam
- word of God by Raj Arumugam
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.