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 ...
Alan Seeger Poems (150 Poems)
Sonnet 10 (Alan Seeger Poems)
I have sought Happiness, but it has been A lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit, And tasted Pleasure, but it was ...
Sonnet XII (Alan Seeger Poems)
Like as a dryad, from her native bole Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge, To a slow river ...
Sonnet 05 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent This day's suggestive beauty as we ought, I have gone forth ...
Sonnet 06 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oh, you are more desirable to me Than all I staked in an impulsive hour, Making my youth the sport ...
The Old Lowe House, Staten Island (Alan Seeger Poems)
Another prospect pleased the builder's eye, And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes) Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes When first ...
I Loved… (Alan Seeger Poems)
I loved illustrious cities and the crowds That eddy through their incandescent nights. I loved remote horizons with far clouds ...
Sonnet 04 (Alan Seeger Poems)
If I was drawn here from a distant place, 'Twas not to pray nor hear our friend's address, But, gazing ...
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 X (Alan Seeger Poems)
A splendor, flamelike, born to be pursued, With palms extent for amorous charity And eyes incensed with love for all ...
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 ...
Lyonesse (Alan Seeger Poems)
In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say: Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess, And fertile lowlands lengthening far away, ...
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, ...
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 ...
On a Theme in the Greek Anthology (Alan Seeger Poems)
Thy petals yet are closely curled, Rose of the world, Around their scented, golden core; Nor yet has Summer purpled ...
Sonnet I (Alan Seeger Poems)
Down the strait vistas where a city street Fades in pale dust and vaporous distances, Stained with far fumes the ...
Tezcotzinco (Alan Seeger Poems)
Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold, Thou wert sometime the garden of a king. The birds have ...
Vivien (Alan Seeger Poems)
Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled Clothed her as sunshine ...
Antinous (Alan Seeger Poems)
Stretched on a sunny bank he lay at rest, Ferns at his elbow, lilies round his knees, With sweet flesh ...
On the Cliffs, Newport (Alan Seeger Poems)
Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom A savor steals from linden ...
Sonnet II (Alan Seeger Poems)
Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways, Between the rivers and the illumined sky Whose fervid depths reverberate ...
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 ...
With a Copy of Shakespeare’s Sonnets on Leaving College (Alan Seeger Poems)
As one of some fat tillage dispossessed, Weighing the yield of these four faded years, If any ask what fruit ...
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 ...
Paris (Alan Seeger Poems)
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
Sonnet III (Alan Seeger Poems)
There was a youth around whose early way White angels hung in converse and sweet choir, Teaching in summer clouds ...
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 ...
Written in a Volume of the Comtesse de Noailles (Alan Seeger Poems)
Be my companion under cool arcades That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree promenades ...