A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
A tide of beauty with returning May
Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume
Odors endeared; down avenues in bloom
The chestnut-trees with phallic spires are gay.
Over the terrace flows the thronged cafe;
The boulevards are streams of hurrying sound;
And through the streets, like veins when they abound,
The lust for pleasure throbs itself away.
Here let me live, here let me still pursue
Phantoms of bliss that beckon and recede, —
Thy strange allurements, City that I love,
Maze of romance, where I have followed too
The dream Youth treasures of its dearest need
And stars beyond thy towers bring tidings of.
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External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- In Commendation Of Musick by William Strode
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- Epitaph On Mr. Bridgeman by William Strode
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- An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor by William Strode
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- A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada by William Strode
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- A Strange Gentlewoman Passing By His Window by William Strode
- A Song On The Baths by William Strode
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- A Riddle: On A Kiss by William Strode
- A Purse-String by William Strode
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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.