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:
- To The Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Британишский – Когда потянет нас на компромисс
- In Barracks by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sinfonia Eroica poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing:
- Юрий Коринец – Март
- Валерий Брюсов – Идут года. Но с прежней страстью
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
- French kiss to knickers poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лесная сторожка
- Breather by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Our Singing Strength by Robert Frost
- Владимир Маяковский – Власть канцелярии – вот слова “бюрократия” перевод… (РОСТА №655)
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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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.