Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty (Alan Seeger Poems)
There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, ...
Alan Seeger Poems on Love (58 Poems)
Paris (Alan Seeger Poems)
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
The Sultan’s Palace (Alan Seeger Poems)
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face,As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;As in their ...
A Message To America (Alan Seeger Poems)
You have the grit and the guts, I know; You are ready to answer blow for blow You are virile, ...
An Ode To Antares (Alan Seeger Poems)
At dusk, when lowlands where dark waters glide Robe in gray mist, and through the greening hills The hoot-owl calls ...
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Ruggiero, to amaze the British host, And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks, The bridle of his winged courser ...
Do You Remember Once . . . (Alan Seeger Poems)
Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces, The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays And, ...
Fragments (Alan Seeger Poems)
In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules, I too have been a suitor. ...
The Rendezvous (Alan Seeger Poems)
He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the ...
The Aisne (Alan Seeger Poems)
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
The Hosts (Alan Seeger Poems)
Purged, with the life they left, of allThat makes life paltry and mean and small,In their new dedication chargedWith something ...
The Wanderer (Alan Seeger Poems)
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires ...
The Need To Love (Alan Seeger Poems)
The need to love that all the stars obeyEntered my heart and banished all beside.Bare were the gardens where I ...
Liebestod (Alan Seeger Poems)
I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an ...
The Bayadere (Alan Seeger Poems)
Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid By the light ...
Eudaemon (Alan Seeger Poems)
O happiness, I know not what far seas, Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround, That thus in Music's ...
All That’s Not Love . . . (Alan Seeger Poems)
All that's not love is the dearth of my days, The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit, The temple ...
Sonnet V (Alan Seeger Poems)
A tide of beauty with returning May Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume Odors endeared; down avenues in ...
With A Copy Of Shakespeare’ (Alan Seeger Poems)
As one of some fat tillage dispossessed, Weighing the yield of these four faded years, If any ask what fruit ...
Sonnet XIV (Alan Seeger Poems)
IT may be for the world of weeds and tares And dearth in Nature of sweet Beauty's rose That oft ...
Sonnet XV (Alan Seeger Poems)
Above the ruin of God's holy place, Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood, Whose hands, when men had craved substantial ...
Sonnet 01 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance Came to its precious and most perfect flower, Whether you tourneyed with victorious ...
Virginibus Puerisque . . . (Alan Seeger Poems)
I care not that one listen if he lives For aught but life's romance, nor puts above All life's necessities ...
Sonnet IX (Alan Seeger Poems)
Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind the lace Of orchard boughs where clouded ...
Sonnet 03 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Why should you be astonished that my heart, Plunged for so long in darkness and in dearth, Should be revived ...
Sonnet XIII (Alan Seeger Poems)
I fancied, while you stood conversing there, Superb, in every attitude a queen, Her ermine thus Boadicea bare, So moved ...
Sonnet 08 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oh, love of woman, you are known to be A passion sent to plague the hearts of men; For every ...
After An Epigram Of Clement Marot (Alan Seeger Poems)
The lad I was I longer now Nor am nor shall be evermore. Spring's lovely blossoms from my brow Have ...
Resurgam (Alan Seeger Poems)
Exiled afar from youth and happy love, If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence I have no doubt but, ...
A Message to America (Alan Seeger Poems)
You have the grit and the guts, I know; You are ready to answer blow for blow You are virile, ...