English Poem “Kyrenaikos” of poet Alan Seeger complete poem with summery for Students.

Kyrenaikos

Alan Seeger

Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down

In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;

Twine yellow roses for the drinker’s crown;

Let music reach and fair heads circle me,

Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer

Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news

Of merchant cities seek our harbors here,

Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse;

But here, with love and sleep in her caress,

Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade

The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, —

Night-winds, and one whose white youth’s loveliness,

In a flowered balcony beside me laid,

Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.