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:
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Mr. James Gracie:
- Love Sonnet XLIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Олег Бундур – Ужин
- Robert Burns: O Thou Dread Power: Lying at a reverend friend’s house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept:-
- Как в поход я собираюсь
- Владимир Маяковский – Долой мешечников (РОСТА №525)
- Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник
- Factors Affecting the Labor Market – Determination of Wages and The Activities of Trade Unions
- Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Про гидру контрреволюции сегодня сказ (РОСТА № 79)
- Alba poem – Ezra Pound poems
- a deceving reflection by vanessa anderson
- Noe more unto my thoughts appeare by Sidney Godolphin
- Mary Ambree poem – Andrew Lang poems
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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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.