Oft when sweet music undulated round, Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea Thine image from the waves of blissful sound Rose and thy sudden light illumined me. And in the country, leaf and flower and air Would alter and the eternal shape emerge; Because they spoke of thee the fields seemed fair, And Joy…
Kyrenaikos By 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…
Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem By Alan Seeger
I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death And stood beside the cavern through whose doors Enter the voyagers into the unseen. From that dread threshold…
I Loved . . . By Alan Seeger
I loved illustrious cities and the crowds That eddy through their incandescent nights. I loved remote horizons with far clouds Girdled, and fringed about with snowy heights. I loved…
I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . . By Alan Seeger
I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air – I have a rendezvous with…
Fragment IV By Alan Seeger
What is Success? Out of the endless ore Of deep desire to coin the utmost gold Of passionate memory; to have lived so well That the fifth moon,…
Fragment III By Alan Seeger
For there were nights . . . my love to him whose brow Has glistened with the spoils of nights like those, Home turning as a conqueror…
Fragment II By Alan Seeger
There was a time when I thought much of Fame, And laid the golden edifice to be That in the clear light of eternity Should fitly house the…
Fragment I By Alan Seeger
In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules, I too have been a suitor. Radiant eyes Were my life’s warmth and sunshine,…
Eudaemon By Alan Seeger
O happiness, I know not what far seas, Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround, That thus in Music’s wistful harmonies And concert of sweet…