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:
- The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
- A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley by William Topaz McGonagall
- An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Lovers on Aran by Seamus Heaney
- There Were Dry Red Days by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Untitled XXII by Yunus Emre
- Аля Кудряшева – Ходят катера по Малой Невке
- Minstrels by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
- The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
- Огюст Барбье – Дант
- Ballade Of Worldly Wealth poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лес и Дровосек
- The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
- absent-mindedness; or I Dream of Spices by Raj Arumugam
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
- 3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creative Thinking
- The True Beauty of Poetry
- Waste Land – A Thorough History of Humanity
- What is Forged Steel Roll and How is it Involved in Industry?
- Gospel Music Inspires Body & Soul
- Creative Branding Solutions – So Why Do I Need a Logo?
- Writing Strategy: On Getting Inspired Everyday
- Creativity in America and How Italians Can Learn From American Ingenuity
- The Modern Lyricist As Poet
- Free Poetry Competitions – Prepare to Win The Next Poetry Competition That You Enter!
- Live Inspired With Famous Inspiring Quotes
- Songwriting Tip – Structure of a Pop Song
- Comments: A Life Well Lived is Always an Inspiration – My Friend Muniappan Velu of Chennai, India
- How Does Writing Improves Your Mental Health?
- Book Review: A Dictionary Of Indian English Litterateurs: 1794-2010
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Indifference. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hymn to Spiritual Desire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
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.