Poems (Seeger)

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Poems (1916)
by Alan Seeger
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POEMS

BY

ALAN SEEGER


WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY

WILLIAM ARCHER



NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
MCMXXVI


Copyright, 1916, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


Printed in the United States of America


Published December, 1916




CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM ARCHER ix
 
JUVENILIA:
An Ode to Natural Beauty 3
The Deserted Garden 10
The Torture of Cuauhtemoc 27
The Nympholept 32
The Wanderer 34
The Need to Love 37
El Extraviado 39
La Nue 41
All That's Not Love... 44
Paris 45
The Sultan's Palace 58
Fragments 63
 
Thirty Sonnets:
I-XVI 68
Kyrenaïkos 84
Antinous 85
Vivien 86
I Loved... 87
Virginibus Puerisque 88
With a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets on Leaving College 89
Written in a Volume of the Comtesse de Noailles 90
Coucy 91
Tezcotzinco 92
The Old Lowe House, Staten Island 93
Oneata 94
On the Cliffs, Newport 95
To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War 96
At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America—November, 1912 97
 
The Rendezvous 98
Do You Remember Once... 101
The Bayadere 105
Eudæmon 106
Broceliande 107
Lyonesse 108
Tithonus 109
An Ode to Antares 111
 
TRANSLATIONS:
Dante. Inferno, Canto XXVI 117
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91–99 123
On a Theme in the Greek Anthology 127
After an Epigram of Clement Marot 128
 
LAST POEMS:
The Aisne (1914–15) 131
Champagne (1914–15) 134
The Hosts 138
Maktoob 141
I Have a Rendezvous with Death... 144
Sonnets:
I. 145
II. 146
III. 147
IV.TO...IN CHURCH 148
V. 149
VI. 150
VII. 151
VIII. 152
IX. 153
X. 154
XI.ON RETURNING TO THE FRONT AFTER LEAVE 155
XII. 156
Bellinglise 157
Liebstod 159
Resurgam 161
A Message to America 162
Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem 167
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France 170