Poetry · 1916
Poems
The collected verse of an American who left Harvard for Paris and then, when war came, for the trenches — enlisting in the French Foreign Legion rather than wait for his own country to join the fight. Killed in action in 1916, he left behind "I Have a Rendezvous with Death," among the most quoted poems to come out of the First World War.
Alan Seeger died at the Battle of the Somme in 1916; this posthumous collection was first published the same year.
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Contents
- Note
- Introduction by William Archer
- 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
- I
- II
- The Sultan’s Palace
- Fragments
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- 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
- The Rendezvous
- Do You Remember Once …
- I
- II
- III
- The Bayadere
- Eudaemon
- Broceliande
- Lyonesse
- Tithonus
- An Ode to Antares
- Dante. Inferno, Canto XXVI
- Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91–99
- On a Theme in the Greek Anthology
- After an Epigram of Clement Marot
- The Aisne (1914–15)
- Champagne (1914–15)
- The Hosts
- Maktoob
- I Have a Rendezvous with Death …
- Sonnets:
- Bellinglise
- I
- II
- Liebestod
- Resurgam
- A Message to America
- Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem
- Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
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1888–1916 · Modern
Alan Seeger (1888–1916) was an American poet born in New York City and educated at Harvard. Living in Paris when the First World War broke out, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion rather than wait for the United States to enter the war. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, days after his twenty-eighth birthday; his poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death," written shortly before his death, became one of the best-known poems of the war.
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