Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence
I have no doubt but, like a homing dove,
It would return to its dear residence,
And through a thousand stars find out the road
Back into earthly flesh that was its loved abode.
(Alan Seeger)
More Poetry from Alan Seeger:
Alan Seeger Poems based on Topics: Love, Death & Dying- I have a Rendezvous with Death (Alan Seeger Poems)
- Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty (Alan Seeger Poems)
- Paris (Alan Seeger Poems)
- Translations (Alan Seeger Poems)
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France (Alan Seeger Poems)
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc (Alan Seeger Poems)