A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Up at his attic sill the South wind came
And days of sun and storm but never peace.
Along the town’s tumultuous arteries
He heard the heart-throbs of a sentient frame:
Each night the whistles in the bay, the same
Whirl of incessant wheels and clanging cars:
For smoke that half obscured, the circling stars
Burnt like his youth with but a sickly flame.
Up to his attic came the city cries —
The throes with which her iron sinews heave —
And yet forever behind prison doors
Welled in his heart and trembled in his eyes
The light that hangs on desert hills at eve
And tints the sea on solitary shores. . . .
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet CLI by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Берггольц – Второй разговор с соседкой
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на день восшествия на престол Ее Величества 1753 года
- Khabaram raseed imshab poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Дорога на фронт
- Your souls are ours by Philo Ikonya
- Олег Бундур – Праздник встречи
- Black Stone On Top Of Nothing by Philip Levine
- What a Glow Everywhere I see – Aaj Rung Hai poem – with a translation Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lord when the wise men came from farr by Sidney Godolphin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мажорный светофор, трёхцветье, трио
- Ad Nepotem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Перед выездом в загранку заполняешь кучу бланков
- Низами Гянджеви – Газелеокая
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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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.