A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
IT may be for the world of weeds and tares
And dearth in Nature of sweet Beauty’s rose
That oft as Fortune from ten thousand shows
One from the train of Love’s true courtiers
Straightway on him who gazes, unawares,
Deep wonder seizes and swift trembling grows,
Reft by that sight of purpose and repose,
Hardly its weight his fainting breast upbears.
Then on the soul from some ancestral place
Floods back remembrance of its heavenly birth,
When, in the light of that serener sphere,
It saw ideal beauty face to face
That through the forms of this our meaner Earth
Shines with a beam less steadfast and less clear.
A few random poems:
- Ellen Irwin Or The Braes Of Kirtle by William Wordsworth
- Олег Бундур – Гроза
- As We Like It by W H Auden
- Владимир Британишский – Ты шепчешь мне
- When ‘Omer Smote ‘Is Bloomin’ Lyre by Rudyard Kipling
- Goblins Of The Steppes poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сказка о живых мертвецах
- A Memory by William Allingham
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad:
- The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Василий Жуковский – К Дмитриеву (Нет, не прошла)
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Soliloquy In A Tub poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.