Sonnet IX Alan Seeger Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind the lace Of orchard boughs where clouded blossoms part When Spring shines in the world and in the heart. As the full-moon-beams to...
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English Poem “An Ode to Antares” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
An Ode to Antares Alan Seeger 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 the red star...
English Poem “Broceliande” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
Broceliande Alan Seeger 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 this world are the moon-marshalled hosts...
English Poem “Sonnet 01” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
Sonnet 01 Alan Seeger Sidney, in whom the heyday of romance Came to its precious and most perfect flower, Whether you tourneyed with victorious lance Or brought sweet roundelays to Stella’s bower, I give myself some credit for the way I...
English Poem “To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War Alan Seeger A cloud has lowered that shall not soon pass o’er. The world takes sides: whether for impious aims With Tyranny whose bloody toll enflames A generous people to heroic war;...
English Poem “Sonnet XII” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
Sonnet XII Alan Seeger Like as a dryad, from her native bole Coming at dusk, when the dim stars emerge, To a slow river at whose silent verge Tall poplars tremble and deep grasses roll, Come thou no less and, kneeling...
English Poem “Maktoob” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
Maktoob Alan Seeger A shell surprised our post one day And killed a comrade at my side. My heart was sick to see the way He suffered as he died. I dug about the place he fell, And found, no bigger...
English Poem “The Sultans Palace” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
The Sultans Palace Alan Seeger My spirit only lived to look on Beauty’s face, As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright; As in their flesh inheres the impulse to embrace, To gaze on Loveliness was my soul’s appetite....
English Poem “The Torture of Cuauhtemoc” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc Alan Seeger Their strength had fed on this when Death’s white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the jungle’s ferny floor, Becking each fevered brain. On bleak divides, Where Sleep grew niggardly for...
English Poem “Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 Alan Seeger Ruggiero, to amaze the British host, And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks, The bridle of his winged courser loosed, And clapped his spurs into the creature’s flanks; High in the air,...