Introduction (Alan Seeger Poems)
I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death And stood beside the cavern through whose doors Enter the voyagers ...
I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death And stood beside the cavern through whose doors Enter the voyagers ...
With eyes that searched in the dark,Peering along the line,Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark,Driver of "Forty-nine".And the veldt-fire flamed ...
I rested my head upon Elvir Hill's side, and my eyes werebeginning to slumber; That moment there rose up before ...
WELCOME, thou gray and fragrant Sabbath-day,To deathless love and valor dedicate!Glorious with the richest flowers of May,With early roses, lingering ...
I wandered up and down the quay to-day,And yesterday, and many days before,In and out, aboard the ships I've found ...
If I'd got to choose aloneOne of all the freights I've known —All my cargoes live and dead,Bacon pigs and ...
Along the wharves in sailor town a singing whisper goesOf the wind among the anchored ships, the wind that blowsOff ...
A frost came in the night and stole my worldAnd left this changeling for it - a precociousImage of spring, ...
XXXVI know, O Lord, the summer fields are green, And the rich splendor of the summer air Is full of ...
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
Giving feet to my dreams the desires of my heart hearing the small voice speaking a message of love for ...
Watching the weather checking the gear loading the car for the ski trip nothing to fear Down in the shop ...
Fidgety, that is probably the best way to describe us a ragtag gathering by the van loading a week's supplies, ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me. They are waiting for me to die; ...
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and used it along the way. I ...
It seems wrong that out of this bird, Black, bold, a suggestion of dark Places about it, there yet should ...
With eyes that searched in the dark, Peering along the line, Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark, Driver of "Forty-nine". ...
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
1 We live here because the houses are clean, the lawns run right to the street and the streets run ...
Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song in my own breath. I'm alone here in Brooklyn Heights, late ...
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