A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say:
Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess,
And fertile lowlands lengthening far away,
In Lyonesse.
Came a term to that land’s old favoredness:
Past the sea-walls, crumbled in thundering spray,
Rolled the green waves, ravening, merciless.
Through bearded boughs immobile in cool decay,
Where sea-bloom covers corroding palaces,
The mermaid glides with a curious glance to-day,
In Lyonesse.
A few random poems:
- Алексей Ржевский – Рок все теперь свершил, надежды больше нет
- Степан Щипачев – Не громок, не бросок мой стих
- Владимир Степанов – Суворовец
- The Ballad of the King’s Mercy by Rudyard Kipling
- how far are you? by Raj Arumugam
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
- A Magic Moment I Remember poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Омар Хайям – Когда под утренней росой дрожит тюльпан
- Song—Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – Кипренский. Портрет С.С. Уварова 1816 год
- Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits by William Shakespeare
- On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- The Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
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
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.