Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger (1888–1916) was an American poet who fought in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. His poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" is one of the most fam…
"Oft when sweet music undulated round, Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea Thine image from the waves of blissful sound Rose"
"He faints with hope and fear. It is the hour. Distant, across the thundering organ-swell, In sweet discord from the cathedral-tower,"
"Be my companion under cool arcades That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree promenades"
"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,"
"Who shall invoke her, who shall be her priest, With single rites the common debt to pay? On some green headland fronting to the East"
"To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound Whose stations Beauty's bright examples are, As of a silken city famed afar Over the sands f"
"Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed), Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue Look the leftovers of mankind that rest,"
"Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways, Between the rivers and the illumined sky Whose fervid depths reverberate from on high F"
"Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom A savor steals from linden trees in bloom"
"Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown; Let musi"
"Her eyes under their lashes were blue pools Fringed round with lilies; her bright hair unfurled Clothed her as sunshine clothes the summ"
"Another prospect pleased the builder's eye, And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes) Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes When fi"
"(To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington in Paris, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916.) I Ay, it is fitting on"
"Ruggiero, to amaze the British host, And wake more wonder in their wondering ranks, The bridle of his winged courser loosed, And cl"
"I Deep in the sloping forest that surrounds The head of a green valley that I know, Spread the fair gardens and ancestral grou"
"In the glad revels, in the happy fetes, When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled With the sweet wine of France that concen"