A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Amid the florid multitude her face
Was like the full moon seen behind the lace
Of orchard boughs where clouded blossoms part
When Spring shines in the world and in the heart.
As the full-moon-beams to the ferny floor
Of summer woods through flower and foliage pour,
So to my being’s innermost recess
Flooded the light of so much loveliness;
She held as in a vase of priceless ware
The wine that over arid ways and bare
My youth was the pathetic thirsting for,
And where she moved the veil of Nature grew
Diaphanous and that radiance mantled through
Which, when I see, I tremble and adore.
A few random poems:
- Song—Willie brew’d a Peck o’ Maut by Robert Burns
- The Sergeant’s Weddin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- Epistle to John Rankine by Robert Burns
- Владимир Костров – Мы на тяге ракетной берёзовых дров
- Владимир Маяковский – Война окончена… (РОСТА №898)
- Written in London. September, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Straw sandal half sunk by Yosa Buson
- Николай Карамзин – Раиса (Древняя баллада)
- Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
- Leto and Niobe by Sappho
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Федор Сологуб – Святых имен твоих не знаю
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- Flowers From Sion: Sonnet 25 – More oft than once death whispered by William Drummond
- Ballade Of The Midnight Forest 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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.