Poems (Seeger)

by Alan Seeger

For works with similar titles, see Poems.

POEMS

BY

ALAN SEEGER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
WILLIAM ARCHER

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
MCMXXVI

Copyright, 1916, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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Printed in the United States of America

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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