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:
- On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica by William Cowper
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- My Father by Yehuda Amichai
- Владимир Корнилов – Тоска
- Олег Григорьев – Люди
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Uncle An’ Aunt by William Barnes
- The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Степан Щипачев – Лил дождь осенний
- motionless_body.html
- The Hollow Woak by William Barnes
- The True Beauty of Poetry
- Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
- The Tombstone-Maker by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: To Miss Ferrier: Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.
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
- A Mesh by Shahida Latif
- Tear of warm dew of mind by Seema Gupta
- Your Time’s Comin’ by Shel Silverstein
- Workin’ It Out by Shel Silverstein
- Who’s Taller? by Shel Silverstein
- Who does she think she is…. by Shel Silverstein
- When She Cries by Shel Silverstein
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Tryin’ On Clothes by Shel Silverstein
- They’ve Put A Brassiere On A Camel by Shel Silverstein
- The Worlds Greatest Smoke Off by Shel Silverstein
- The Winner by Shel Silverstein
- The Voice by Shel Silverstein
- The Unicorn by Shel Silverstein
- The Sitter by Shel Silverstein
- The Perfect Wave by Shel Silverstein
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
- The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein
- The Nap Taker by Shel Silverstein
- The Monkey by Shel Silverstein
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.