A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Like as a dryad, from her native bole
Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge,
To a slow river at whose silent verge
Tall poplars tremble and deep grasses roll,
Come thou no less and, kneeling in a shoal
Of the freaked flag and meadow buttercup,
Bend till thine image from the pool beam up
Arched with blue heaven like an aureole.
See how adorable in fancy then
Lives the fair face it mirrors even so,
O thou whose beauty moving among men
Is like the wind’s way on the woods below,
Filling all nature where its pathway lies
With arms that supplicate and trembling sighs.
A few random poems:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше были писатели белоручки… (Роста №52)
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись благоверному и Великому князю Александру Невскому
- Юрий Верховский – Ах, душечка моя, как нынче мне светло
- Sleep and Death by William Wycherley
- a laugh song by Raj Arumugam
- Vernal Ode by William Wordsworth
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
- Robert Burns: A Lass Wi’ A Tocher:
- Depression Before Spring by Wallace Stevens
- “While with fond rapture and amaze” by Tobias Smollett
- Михаил Кузмин – Все дни у Бога хороши
- Олег Григорьев – Секрет
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.