A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways,
Between the rivers and the illumined sky
Whose fervid depths reverberate from on high
Fierce lustres mingled in a fiery haze.
They mark it inland; blithe and fair of face
Her suitors follow, guessing by the glare
Beyond the hilltops in the evening air
How bright the cressets at her portals blaze.
On the pure fronts Defeat ere many a day
Falls like the soot and dirt on city-snow;
There hopes deferred lie sunk in piteous seams.
Her paths are disillusion and decay,
With ruins piled and unapparent woe,
The graves of Beauty and the wreck of dreams.
A few random poems:
- Like Barley Bending by Sara Teasdale
- Dreams poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect by William Shakespeare
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- Heaven by Philip Levine
- I Just Wanna Be Your Number One by Miraj Patel
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- Afterimages by Satish Verma
- As I Ponder’d in Silence. by Walt Whitman
- Couplet poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- What Then? by William Butler Yeats
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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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.