A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold,
Thou wert sometime the garden of a king.
The birds have sought a lovelier place to sing.
The flowers are few. It was not so of old.
It was not thus when hand in hand there strolled
Through arbors perfumed with undying Spring
Bare bodies beautiful, brown, glistening,
Decked with green plumes and rings of yellow gold.
Do you suppose the herdsman sometimes hears
Vague echoes borne beneath the moon’s pale ray
From those old, old, far-off, forgotten years?
Who knows? Here where his ancient kings held sway
He stands. Their names are strangers to his ears.
Even their memory has passed away.
A few random poems:
- Алексей Толстой – Темнота и туман застилают мне путь
- Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
- To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Илона Грошева – Когда приходит Дима в парк
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man:
- For the Lute by William Somervile
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Илья Эренбург – Я бы мог прожить совсем иначе
- The Dunciad: Book II. poem – Alexander Pope
- Wold Friends A-Met by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Я все оставляю тебе при уходе
- A Human Being Needs Strong Tea
- Patroling Barnegat. by Walt Whitman
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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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.