A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
There was a youth around whose early way
White angels hung in converse and sweet choir,
Teaching in summer clouds his thought to stray, —
In cloud and far horizon to desire.
His life was nursed in beauty, like the stream
Born of clear showers and the mountain dew,
Close under snow-clad summits where they gleam
Forever pure against heaven’s orient blue.
Within the city’s shades he walked at last.
Faint and more faint in sad recessional
Down the dim corridors of Time outworn,
A chorus ebbed from that forsaken past,
A hymn of glories fled beyond recall
With the lost heights and splendor of life’s morn.
A few random poems:
- Олег Чупров – На предназначенной орбите
- Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are poem – John Keats poems
- Whoever Comes From The Earth by Nelly Sachs
- Fever 103° by Sylvia Plath
- Infelice by Stevie Smith
- A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) by Thomas Hardy
- Robert Burns: A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore:
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands by Robert Burns
- Владимир Вишневский – Долго же мы друг друга откладывали
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- I Arise And Go Down To The River
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.