English Poetry. Alan Seeger. Kyrenaikos. Алан Сигер.

Alan Seeger (Алан Сигер)

Kyrenaikos

LAY me where soft Cyrene rambles down
In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;
Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown;
Let music reach and fair heads circle me,
Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer
Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news
Of merchant cities seek our harbors here,
Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse;
But here, with love and sleep in her caress,
Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade
The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, --
Night-winds, and one whose white youth's loveliness,
In a flowered balcony beside me laid,
Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.

Alan Seeger’s other poems:

1. Sonnet 12. Down the strait vistas where a city street
2. Sonnet 10. A splendor, flamelike, born to be pursued
3. Sonnet 2. Not that I always struck the proper mean
4. Coucy
5. Sonnet 4. Up at his attic sill the South wind came

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