Alan Seeger Quotes

At dusk, when lowlands where dark waters glide Robe in gray mist, and through the greening hills The hoot-owl calls his mate, and whippoorwills Clamor from every copse and orchard-side, I watched...

Alan Seeger

An Ode to Antares - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-ode-to-antares/

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The lad I was I longer now Nor am nor shall be evermore. Spring's lovely blossoms from my brow Have shed their petals on the floor. Thou, Love, hast been my lord, thy shrine Above all gods' best...

Alan Seeger

After an Epigram of Clement Marot - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-an-epigram-of-clement-marot/

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Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind, I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings unfurled Leave the familiar gardens and visited fields behind To follow a cloud in...

Alan Seeger

El Extraviado - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/el-extraviado/

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The rooks aclamor when one enters here Startle the empty towers far overhead; Through gaping walls the summer fields appear, Green, tan, or, poppy-mingled, tinged with red. The courts where revel...

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Coucy - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/coucy/

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Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade, Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze of horizons untravelled, unscanned. Untroubled, untouched with the woes of...

Alan Seeger

Broceliande - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/broceliande/

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Stretched on a sunny bank he lay at rest, Ferns at his elbow, lilies round his knees, With sweet flesh patterned where the cool turf pressed, Flowerlike crept o'er with emerald aphides. Single he...

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Antinous - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/antinous/

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All that's not love is the dearth of my days, The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit, The temple in times without prayer, without praise, The altar unset and the candle unlit. Let me...

Alan Seeger

All That's Not Love - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-that-s-not-love/

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You have the grit and the guts, I know; You are ready to answer blow for blow You are virile, combative, stubborn, hard, But your honor ends with your own back-yard; Each man intent on his...

Alan Seeger

A Message to America - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-message-to-america/

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I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame, Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast, Now glows far off as storm-clouds overpast Glow in the sunset flushed with glorious flame. Has Nature marred...

Alan Seeger

At the Tomb of Napoleon

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I have a rendezvous with Death, At some disputed barricade, At midnight in some flaming town.

Alan Seeger

I Have a Rendezvous with Death.

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