A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Oft as by chance, a little while apart
The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,
Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart,
Beams like the jewel on the breast of dawn:
Not though high heaven should rend would deeper awe
Fill me than penetrates my spirit thus,
Nor all those signs the Patmian prophet saw
Seem a new heaven and earth so marvelous;
But, clad thenceforth in iridescent dyes,
The fair world glistens, and in after days
The memory of kind lips and laughing eyes
Lives in my step and lightens all my face, —
So they who found the Earthly Paradise
Still breathed, returned, of that sweet, joyful place.
A few random poems:
- These nights by Manushya Puthiran
- Алишер Навои – Сердце взял мое сын мага
- The Door Of Humility poem – Alfred Austin
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
- Where Are You
- To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- A Whirl-Blast From Behind The Hill by William Wordsworth
- Tyburn by Ramesh Anand
- Autumn by Stevie Smith
- Омар Хайям – Не порочь лозы-невесты
- The Dunciad: Book II. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Flora by William Morris
- Олег Григорьев – Иду я среди голодный
- Василий Тредиаковский – К почтению, льзя объявить любовь
- Владимир Британишский – В болотах севера Евразии
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
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Northern Farmer: New Style poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Move Eastward, Happy Earth poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Morte D’Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Minnie and Winnie poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Mariana In The South poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Mariana poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Lucretius poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Locksley Hall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Lilian poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Late, Late, So Late poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Lady Clare poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- In Memoriam A. HIn Memoriam A. H. H.: 56. So careful of the type? but no.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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.