A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
Why should you be astonished that my heart,
Plunged for so long in darkness and in dearth,
Should be revived by you, and stir and start
As by warm April now, reviving Earth?
I am the field of undulating grass
And you the gentle perfumed breath of Spring,
And all my lyric being, when you pass,
Is bowed and filled with sudden murmuring.
I asked you nothing and expected less,
But, with that deep, impassioned tenderness
Of one approaching what he most adores,
I only wished to lose a little space
All thought of my own life, and in its place
To live and dream and have my joy in yours.
A few random poems:
- Of Wit
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- The River by Sara Teasdale
- Once She Dreamed
- The Giants In Treädes by William Barnes
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Суд
- Федор Сваровский – Пилот и Биби Хлотрос
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Holy Willie:
- A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
- Song Of The Master And Boatswain by W H Auden
- Be there for me by Tanisha Avarsekar
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Bridesmaid From Rio by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Ольга Берггольц – Таков мой подарок тебе за измену
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
- Валерий Брюсов – Из наблюдений
- Валерий Брюсов – Из лесной жути
- Валерий Брюсов – Из латинской антологии (Нежный стихов аромат услаждает безделие девы)
- Валерий Брюсов – Из детской книжки
- Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
- Валерий Брюсов – Из Александрийской антологии. К Сапфо
- Валерий Брюсов – Из ада изведенные (Астарта! Астарта! И ты посмеялась)
- Валерий Брюсов – Июль 1908
- Валерий Брюсов – Ленин
- Валерий Брюсов – Лед и уголь
- Валерий Брюсов – Пленный лев
- Валерий Брюсов – Пиршество войны
- Валерий Брюсов – Пифия
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня североамериканских индейцев
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня гренландцев
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня девушки в тайге
- Валерий Брюсов – Последнее желанье
- Валерий Брюсов – После смерти Ленина
- Валерий Брюсов – После сенокоса
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.