A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Be my companion under cool arcades
That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square
Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree promenades
White belfries burn in the blue tropic air.
Lie near me in dim forests where the croon
Of wood-doves sounds and moss-banked water flows,
Or musing late till the midsummer moon
Breaks through some ruined abbey’s empty rose.
Sweetest of those to-day whose pious hands
Tend the sequestered altar of Romance,
Where fewer offerings burn, and fewer kneel,
Pour there your passionate beauty on my heart,
And, gladdening such solitudes, impart
How sweet the fellowship of those who feel!
A few random poems:
- In The End by Sara Teasdale
- Thou Reader. by Walt Whitman
- Вероника Тушнова – Мать
- Владимир Луговской – Почтовый переулок
- Геннадий Айги – Два эпилога
- Dust in the Eyes by Robert Frost
- An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron by William Strode
- A Soldier’s Song by Stephenie Tucker
- Владимир Набоков – Осень
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Николай Гумилев – Левин, Левин, ты суров
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard:
- Insomniac by Sylvia Plath
- February 23
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
- Forex Trading Strategies – Divining the Mysteries of Candlestick Charts and Patterns
- Numbers and the Bible
- Quality Customer Service – How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- Ethiopia – Lalibela
- Different World Views of Art
- Distributive Trade II – The Wholesaler
- 12 Surefire Brainstorming Techniques
- Factors Affecting the Labor Market – Determination of Wages and The Activities of Trade Unions
- How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?
- The Cosmic Eggs
- What Are Solar Roofing Shingles?
- Howard Stern’s Wine
- Style Ideas For Vests For Women
- A Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte:Talent Flies; Practical Reason Walks
- How to Make Money Online Writing and Selling eBooks
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- God’s Work Ethics
- Article Writing – Revealed – 4 Priceless Methods to Make Money Through Article Writing
- 71 Ways For A Writer To Make Money
- Secrets of Academic Success: Passion
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.