Poems by Alan Seeger
The Hosts
... And a song to the rhythm of their tramping feet, ...
The Need to Love
... Where our kites climbed once from some grassy hill:And my soul once more would be wrapped entire ...
The Nympholept
... One by one Each towering trunk beneath his sturdy stride ...
The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
... But I, On evenings when autumnal winds have stirred ...
The Rendezvous
... And the tower-clock tolls five, and he admits at last, ...
The Sultan's Palace
... he sunshine on the hills, the starlight on the sea,---Unto angelic Earth, whereof the lives of those ...
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc
... Past those proud lips whose key their sovereign claimed ...
The Wanderer
... To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut,And roused by street-cries in strange tongues when day ...
Tithonus
... There singing groves, there spacious gardens blow -- ...
To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War
... Whether with Freedom, stretched in her own gore, ...
Translations: Dante - Inferno, Canto XXVI
... That there Man's foot shall pause, and further none shall go ...
Virginibus Puerisque . . .
... 'Tis sweet to stroll and hear the bluebirds sing, ...
Vivien
... . . But wake that night, lost, by some woodland mere, ...
With a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets on Leaving College
... Through thee achieved the love that Shakespeare knew ...
Written in a Volume of the Comtesse de Noailles
... Of wood-doves sounds and moss-banked water flows, ...
