A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
There have been times when I could storm and plead,
But you shall never hear me supplicate.
These long months that have magnified my need
Have made my asking less importunate,
For now small favors seem to me so great
That not the courteous lovers of old time
Were more content to rule themselves and wait,
Easing desire with discourse and sweet rhyme.
Nay, be capricious, willful; have no fear
To wound me with unkindness done or said,
Lest mutual devotion make too dear
My life that hangs by a so slender thread,
And happy love unnerve me before May
For that stern part that I have yet to play.
A few random poems:
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
- Олег Бундур – Вид с задней парты
- God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor
- Василий Тредиаковский – Видеть все женские лица
- Владимир Высоцкий – Расскажи, дорогой
- Essay On The Personal by Stephen Dunn
- Омар Хайям – Из края в край мы держим к смерти путь
- The First Part: Sonnet 5 – How that vast heaven intitled First is roll’d, by William Drummond
- Омар Хайям – Когда под утренней росой дрожит тюльпан
- Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division.
- Farmers Market by Mary TallMountain
- The Poor Lover to His Rich Mistress about to Marry His Coxcombly Rival by William Wycherley
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- I saw Old General at Bay. by Walt Whitman
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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.