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:
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- In Barracks by Siegfried Sassoon
- Валерий Брюсов – Июль 1908
- The Passing Show poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Чайковский
- The Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
- Юрий Галансков – Утро
- The Rose by William Cowper
- Ольга Ермолаева – Напиши мне стишок
- Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman
- On An Infant (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- Cologne by Samuel Coleridge
- A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Stanzas On Naething: Extempore Epistle to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
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
- discovery.html
- day_dream.html
- cocoon_for_a_skeleton.html
- cinema_screen.html
- chaplin.html
- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
- black_on_black.html
- black_morning_lovesong.html
- birch_tree.html
- betrayal.html
- bells_pool_and_sleep.html
- attack_on_the_ad_man.html
- any_man_speaks.html
- woken_up_by_beautiful_dreams.html
- was_then.html
- vestiges.html
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- the_poet_angels_who_came_to_dinner.html
- the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
- the_man_that_poetry_made.html
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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.