A poem by Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
I care not that one listen if he lives
For aught but life’s romance, nor puts above
All life’s necessities the need to love,
Nor counts his greatest wealth what Beauty gives.
But sometime on an afternoon in spring,
When dandelions dot the fields with gold,
And under rustling shade a few weeks old
‘Tis sweet to stroll and hear the bluebirds sing,
Do you, blond head, whom beauty and the power
Of being young and winsome have prepared
For life’s last privilege that really pays,
Make the companion of an idle hour
These relics of the time when I too fared
Across the sweet fifth lustrum of my days.
A few random poems:
- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс.
- Denouement Villanelle by Sylvia Plath
- a maiden’s broken heart by Raj Arumugam
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Haunted. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна (Песни жаворонков снова)
- Лебедев-Кумач – Священная война: стих “Вставай, страна огромная”, текст песни на Poetry Monster
- September by Ted Hughes
- Sing Me A Rainbow by Shel Silverstein
- I Cast My Net Into The Sea by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Angel Of The Church by William Gilmore Simms
- The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чатырдаг
- When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling
- Imitated From The Japanese by William Butler Yeats
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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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.