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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—ofthe thrill of sense and the rapture of soul—than it is given tomost 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 flurryof machine-gun fire, and he fell, with most of his comrades,on the blood-stained but rec