Author: Alan Seeger

I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an […]

O happiness, I know not what far seas, Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround, That thus in Music’s […]

I fancied, while you stood conversing there, Superb, in every attitude a queen, Her ermine thus Boadicea bare, So moved […]

Thy petals yet are closely curled, Rose of the world, Around their scented, golden core; Nor yet has Summer purpled […]

Up at his attic sill the South wind came And days of sun and storm but never peace. Along the […]

Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting sun, Depths of the azure eastern sky between, Plains where the poplar-bordered highways run, Patched […]

I have sought Happiness, but it has been A lovely rainbow, baffling all pursuit, And tasted Pleasure, but it was […]

Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o’er Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom A savor steals from linden […]

Florence, rejoice! For thou o’er land and sea So spread’st thy pinions that the fame of thee Hath reached no […]

Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds The head of a green valley that I know, Spread the fair gardens […]

Be my companion under cool arcades That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree promenades […]

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, […]

There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature’s fair fabric, sun – and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop […]

I Ay, it is fitting on this holiday, Commemorative of our soldier dead, When with sweet flowers of our New […]

Purged, with the life they left, of all That makes life paltry and mean and small, In their new dedication […]

My spirit only lived to look on Beauty’s face, As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright; As […]

First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the […]

Down the strait vistas where a city street Fades in pale dust and vaporous distances, Stained with far fumes the […]

There was a boy not above childish fears With steps that faltered now and straining ears, Timid, irresolute, yet dauntless […]

Not that I always struck the proper mean Of what mankind must give for what they gain, But, when I […]