Juvenilia, An Ode to 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 (150 Poems)
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 ...
Sonnet XI (Alan Seeger Poems)
When among creatures fair of countenance Love comes enformed in such proud character, So far as other beauty yields to ...
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc (Alan Seeger Poems)
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
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, ...
Kyrenaikos (Alan Seeger Poems)
Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; Twine yellow roses for the ...
Sonnet 07 (Alan Seeger Poems)
There have been times when I could storm and plead, But you shall never hear me supplicate. These long months ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France (Alan Seeger Poems)
I Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When -- with sweet flowers of our ...
La Nue (Alan Seeger Poems)
Oft when sweet music undulated round, Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea Thine image from the waves ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tithonus (Alan Seeger Poems)
So when the verdure of his life was shed, With all the grace of ripened manlihead, And on his locks, ...
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, ...
Liebestod (Alan Seeger Poems)
I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an ...
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 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 ...
To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War (Alan Seeger Poems)
A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o'er. The world takes sides: whether for impious aims With Tyranny ...
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 ...
Lyonesse (Alan Seeger Poems)
In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say: Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess, And fertile lowlands lengthening far away, ...
Sonnet 11 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed), Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue Look the leftovers of ...
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 ...
Translations: Dante – Inferno, Canto XXVI (Alan Seeger Poems)
Florence, rejoice! For thou o'er land and sea So spread'st thy pinions that the fame of thee Hath reached no ...
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 ...
Maktoob (Alan Seeger Poems)
A shell surprised our post one day And killed a comrade at my side. My heart was sick to see ...
Sonnet 12 (Alan Seeger Poems)
Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun, Depths of the azure eastern sky between, Plains where the poplar-bordered highways run, Patched ...
Sonnet XVI: Who Shall Invoke Her (Alan Seeger Poems)
Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest, With single rites the common debt to pay? On some green ...
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 ...
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 ...