Author: Alan Seeger

Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways, Between the rivers and the illumined sky Whose fervid depths reverberate […]

Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind the lace Of orchard boughs where clouded […]

Oh, you are more desirable to me Than all I staked in an impulsive hour, Making my youth the sport […]

Like as a dryad, from her native bole Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge, To a slow river […]

Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces, The night we wandered off under the third moon’s rays And, […]

To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires […]

Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; Twine yellow roses for the […]

The need to love that all the stars obey Entered my heart and banished all beside. Bare were the gardens […]

I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on […]

If I was drawn here from a distant place, ‘Twas not to pray nor hear our friend’s address, But, gazing […]

When among creatures fair of countenance Love comes enformed in such proud character, So far as other beauty yields to […]

I loved illustrious cities and the crowds That eddy through their incandescent nights. I loved remote horizons with far clouds […]

A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o’er. The world takes sides: whether for impious aims With Tyranny […]

I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame, Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast, Now glows far off as […]

Above the ruin of God’s holy place, Where man-forsaken lay the bleeding rood, Whose hands, when men had craved substantial […]