A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Another prospect pleased the builder’s eye,
And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)
Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes
When first these gables rose against the sky.
Relic of a romantic taste gone by,
This stately monument alone remains,
Vacant, with lichened walls and window-panes
Blank as the windows of a skull. But I,
On evenings when autumnal winds have stirred
In the porch-vines, to this gray oracle
Have laid a wondering ear and oft-times heard,
As from the hollow of a stranded shell,
Old voices echoing (or my fancy erred)
Things indistinct, but not insensible.
A few random poems:
- Валерий Брюсов – К финскому народу
- Василий Жуковский – На первое отречение от престола Бонапарте
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Robert Burns: I Love My Love In Secret:
- Владимир Маяковский – Дожмем! В России буржуазия побеждена… (РОСТА №841)
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Burns: The Trogger.: Heron Election Ballad, No. IV.
- Владимир Вишневский – В Мисхоре
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- Silver Trails by Satish Verma
- Bigtime by Shel Silverstein
- The Generals by Shel Silverstein
- the-infernal-regions.html
- Herodotus in Egypt Remeber Delos by Ruth Padel
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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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.