A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
When among creatures fair of countenance
Love comes enformed in such proud character,
So far as other beauty yields to her,
So far the breast with fiercer longing pants;
I bless the spot, and hour, and circumstance,
That wed desire to a thing so high,
And say, Glad soul, rejoice, for thou and I
Of bliss unpaired are made participants;
Hence have come ardent thoughts and waking dreams
That, feeding Fancy from so sweet a cup,
Leave it no lust for gross imaginings.
Through her the woman’s perfect beauty gleams
That while it gazes lifts the spirit up
To that high source from which all beauty springs.
A few random poems:
- Day And Night by Rupert Brooke
- “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Лучшая музыка в мире)
- Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson by Robert Burns
- Creation poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Transient
- Crow’s Nerve Fails by Ted Hughes
- John Anderson by Robert Burns
- The Best Time Of The Day by Raymond Carver
- Яков Полонский – Одному из усталых
- City of Ships. by Walt Whitman
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чудом тени
- Федор Сологуб – Святых имен твоих не знаю
- No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Орлов – Добрый день
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
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 13 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 11 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Готова молодость твоя откочевать
- Низами Гянджеви – Где путь в кумирню
- Низами Гянджеви – Газелеокая
- Низами Гянджеви – Если б радость не лучилась
- Низами Гянджеви – Другим знавала ты меня
- Низами Гянджеви – День мой благословен
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- Нинель Эпатова – Настя с мамою в лесочке
- Нина Воронель – Запахи детства еще не забыты
- Нина Воронель – Юбилей в доме литераторов
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- Нина Воронель – Высокосный год
- Нина Воронель – Вечная мерзлота
- Нина Воронель – В чаще
- Нина Воронель – Суета
- Нина Воронель – Суд современников не значит ни черта
- Нина Воронель – Снег
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.