A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
IT may be for the world of weeds and tares
And dearth in Nature of sweet Beauty’s rose
That oft as Fortune from ten thousand shows
One from the train of Love’s true courtiers
Straightway on him who gazes, unawares,
Deep wonder seizes and swift trembling grows,
Reft by that sight of purpose and repose,
Hardly its weight his fainting breast upbears.
Then on the soul from some ancestral place
Floods back remembrance of its heavenly birth,
When, in the light of that serener sphere,
It saw ideal beauty face to face
That through the forms of this our meaner Earth
Shines with a beam less steadfast and less clear.
A few random poems:
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content poem – John Keats poems
- The Dug-Out by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Faery Forest by Sara Teasdale
- After Parting by Sara Teasdale
- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
- In Every Direction by Ralph Angel
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: First Version
- Вероника Тушнова – Молчание
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Poetry And Politics
- Demon And Beast by William Butler Yeats
- Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen by William Butler Yeats
- Are You There? by W H Auden
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
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
- Юрий Галансков – Мне больно
- Юрий Галансков – Человеческий манифест
- Юрий Галансков стихи: читать все стихотворения, поэмы поэта Юрий Галансков – Поэзия на Poetry Monster
- Юрий Энтин – Слово про слово
- Юрий Левитанский – Не брести мне сушею
- Юрий Левитанский – Мое поколение
- Юрий Левитанский – Кто-то так уже писал
- Юрий Левитанский – Кинематограф
- Юрий Левитанский – Как зарок от суесловья, как залог
- Юрий Левитанский – Иронический человек
- Юрий Левитанский – Грач над березовой чащей
- Юрий Левитанский – Диалог у новогодней елки
- Юрий Левитанский – Что я знаю про стороны света
- Юрий Левитанский – Человек, строящий воздушные замки
- Юрий Левитанский – Белый снег
- Юрий Верховский – Зачем, паук, уходишь торопливо
- Юрий Верховский – Вариации на тему Пушкина
- Юрий Верховский – В майское утро
- Юрий Верховский – Судьба с судьбой
- Юрий Верховский – Рождественскою ночью
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.