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Poems By: Alan Seeger (1888-1916) |
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[Alan Seeger, American (New York) Poet. 22 June 1888 04 July 1916.]
Poems
by Alan Seeger
With an introduction by William Archer
Contents Introduction by William Archer
Juvenilia An Ode to Natural Beauty
The Deserted Garden
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc
The Nympholept
The Wanderer
The Need to Love
El Extraviado
La Nue
All That's Not Love . . .
Paris
The Sultan's Palace
Fragments Thirty Sonnets:
Sonnet I
Sonnet II
Sonnet III
Sonnet IV
Sonnet V
Sonnet VI
Sonnet VII
Sonnet VIII
Sonnet IX
Sonnet X
Sonnet XI
Sonnet XII
Sonnet XIII
Sonnet XIV
Sonnet XV
Sonnet XVI
Kyrenaikos
Antinous
Vivien
I Loved . . .
Virginibus Puerisque . . .
With a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets on Leaving College
Written in a Volume of the Comtesse de Noailles
Coucy
Tezcotzinco
The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
Oneata
On the Cliffs, Newport
To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War
At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America November, 1912 The Rendezvous
Do You Remember Once . . .
The Bayadere
Eudaemon
Broceliande
Lyonesse
Tithonus
An Ode to Antares
Translations Dante. Inferno, Canto XXVI
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91 99
On a Theme in the Greek Anthology
After an Epigram of Clement Marot
Last Poems The Aisne (1914 15)
Champagne (1914 15)
The Hosts
Maktoob
I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . . Sonnets:
Sonnet I
Sonnet II
Sonnet III
Sonnet IV
Sonnet V
Sonnet VI
Sonnet VII
Sonnet VIII
Sonnet IX
Sonnet X
Sonnet XI
Sonnet XII Bellinglise
Liebestod
Resurgam
A Message to America
Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France
Introduction by William Archer This book contains the undesigned, but all the more spontaneous and authentic,
biography of a very rare spirit. It contains the record of a short life,
into which was crowded far more of keen experience and high aspiration of
the thrill of sense and the rapture of soul than it is given to
most men, even of high vitality, to extract from a life of twice the length.
Alan Seeger had barely passed his twenty eighth birthday, when,
charging up to the German trenches on the field of Belloy en Santerre,
his "escouade" of the Foreign Legion was caught in a deadly flurry
of machine gun fire, and he fell, with most of his comrades,
on the blood stained but reconquered soil. To his friends
the loss was grievous, to literature it was we shall never know how great,
but assuredly not small. Yet this was a case, if ever there was one,
in which we may not only say "Nothing is here for tears,"
but may add to the well worn phrase its less familiar sequel: Nothing to wail
Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair,
And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Of all the poets who have died young, none has died so happily.
Without suggesting any parity of stature, one cannot but think
of the group of English poets who, about a hundred years ago,
were cut off in the flower of their age. Keats, coughing out his soul
by the Spanish Steps; Shelley's spirit of flame snuffed out
by a chance capful of wind from the hills of Carrara;
Byron, stung by a fever gnat on the very threshold of his great
adventure for all these we can feel nothing but poignant unrelieved regret.
Alan Seeger, on the other hand, we can very truly envy. Youth had given him
all that it had to give; and though he would fain have lived
on though no one was ever less world weary than he yet in the plenitude
of his exultant strength, with eye undimmed and pulse unslackening,
he met the death he had voluntarily challenged, in the cause
of the land he loved, and in the moment of victory... Continue reading book >>
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