A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
As one of some fat tillage dispossessed,
Weighing the yield of these four faded years,
If any ask what fruit seems loveliest,
What lasting gold among the garnered ears, —
Ah, then I’ll say what hours I had of thine,
Therein I reaped Time’s richest revenue,
Read in thy text the sense of David’s line,
Through thee achieved the love that Shakespeare knew.
Take then his book, laden with mine own love
As flowers made sweeter by deep-drunken rain,
That when years sunder and between us move
Wide waters, and less kindly bonds constrain,
Thou may’st turn here, dear boy, and reading see
Some part of what thy friend once felt for thee.
A few random poems:
- Михаил Кузмин – Вы белое бургундское вино
- Алишер Навои – То не заросли тюльпанов
- Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится
- Ольга Берггольц – Церковь “Дивная” в Угличе
- Mirage poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Bucolic Betwixt Two; Lacon and Thyrsis by Robert Herrick
- Иван Бунин – Ночного неба свод далекий
- Василий Курочкин – На погребение бедового критика
- Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Британишский – По-польски вместо слова “светлячок”
- At Shelley’s House At Lerici poem – Alfred Austin
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наши добрые зрители
- Николай Языков – Е. А. Тимашевой (Молодая ученица)
- Robert Burns: Remorseful Apology:
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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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.