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Alan Seeger's Poetry, by title

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  • A Message To America
    You have the grit and the guts, I know;
    You are ready to answer blow for blow
    129 lines
  • After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
    The lad I was I longer now
    Nor am nor shall be evermore.
    7 lines
  • All That's Not Love . . .
    All that's not love is the dearth of my days,
    The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit,
    16 lines
  • An Ode To Antares
    At dusk, when lowlands where dark waters glide
    Robe in gray mist, and through the greening hills
    105 lines
  • Antinous
    Stretched on a sunny bank he lay at rest,
    Ferns at his elbow, lilies round his knees,
    14 lines
  • Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99
    Ruggiero, to amaze the British host,
    And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks,
    90 lines
  • At The Tomb Of Napoleon
    I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame,
    Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast,
    13 lines, 5 comments
  • Bellinglise
    Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds
    The head of a green valley that I know,
    29 lines
  • Broceliande
    Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade,
    Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze
    16 lines
  • Champagne, 1914-15
    In the glad revels, in the happy fetes,
    When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled
    68 lines
  • Coucy
    The rooks aclamor when one enters here
    Startle the empty towers far overhead;
    14 lines
  • Do You Remember Once . . .
    Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces,
    The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays
    68 lines
  • El Extraviado
    Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind,
    I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings unfurled
    24 lines
  • Eudaemon
    O happiness, I know not what far seas,
    Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround,
    24 lines
  • Fragments
    In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned
    Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules,
    83 lines
  • I Have A Rendezvous With Death. . .
    I have a rendezvous with Death
    At some disputed barricade,
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • I Loved...
    I loved illustrious cities and the crowds
    That eddy through their incandescent nights.
    14 lines
  • Introduction And Conclusion Of A Long Poem
    I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death
    And stood beside the cavern through whose doors
    75 lines
  • Juvenilia, An OdeTo Natural Beauty
    There is a power whose inspiration fills
    Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought,
    175 lines
  • Kyrenaikos
    Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down
    In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;
    14 lines
  • La Nue
    Oft when sweet music undulated round,
    Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea
    52 lines
  • Liebestod
    I who, conceived beneath another star,
    Had been a prince and played with life, instead
    34 lines
  • Lyonesse
    In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say:
    Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess,
    11 lines
  • Maktoob
    A shell surprised our post one day
    And killed a comrade at my side.
    68 lines
  • Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
    (To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington in
    Paris, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916.)
    105 lines, 1 comment
  • On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
    Thy petals yet are closely curled,
    Rose of the world,
    17 lines
  • On The Cliffs, Newport
    Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er
    Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom
    13 lines
  • Oneata
    A hilltop sought by every soothing breeze
    That loves the melody of murmuring boughs,
    14 lines
  • Paris
    First, London, for its myriads; for its height,
    Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite;
    174 lines
  • Resurgam
    Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
    If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence
    6 lines, 3 comments
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