A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound
Whose stations Beauty’s bright examples are,
As of a silken city famed afar
Over the sands for wealth and holy ground,
Came the report of one — a woman crowned
With all perfection, blemishless and high,
As the full moon amid the moonlit sky,
With the world’s praise and wonder clad around.
And I who held this notion of success:
To leave no form of Nature’s loveliness
Unworshipped, if glad eyes have access there, —
Beyond all earthly bounds have made my goal
To find where that sweet shrine is and extol
The hand that triumphed in a work so fair.
A few random poems:
- Ок Мельникова – Где-то на приморском
- The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- Love Elegy (in imitation of Tibullus) by Tobias Smollett
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- The Fragrance of life by Preeth Nambiar
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Михаил Кузмин – Три раза я его видел лицом к лицу
- Splenda by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Follow My Directions, Please: A Fun Christian Preschool Activity
- Валерий Брюсов – Это было? Неужели?
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Буря и тишь
- Orlando Furioso Canto 6 by Ludovico Ariosto
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.