Potential Titles: Alan Seeger

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First saw fire on the tragic slopes - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Big with wrecked promises and abandoned hopes - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Broke in a surf of blood along the Aisne - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Torn in the stark branches of the riven pines - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Traced the wide curve of the close-grappling lines - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Fog that on the withered hill froze before dawn - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Winter constellations blazing forth - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Aglow with the pale rocket's intermittent light - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

The rumble of far battles in the night - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

For all the dear things I forfeited a recompense - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Like balefire through inclement nights - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Where the watchlights on the winter hills flickered - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Hearts worthy of the honor and the trial - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast - Alan Seeger "At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America--November, 1912"

Their low calumny and sneering cries - Alan Seeger "At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America--November, 1912"

Filling a little pond's untroubled glass - Alan Seeger "Bellinglise"

Through shady groves and fields of unmown grass - Alan Seeger "Bellinglise"

The huntsman's horn echoing from far made sweet - Alan Seeger "Bellinglise"

Serried cannon thunder night and more - Alan Seeger "Bellinglise"

Trace in white fire the brave frontiers - Alan Seeger "Bellinglise"

That concentrates the sunshine and the beauty of the world - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

Whose footsteps yet may tread the undisturbed, delightful paths - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

Lies at peace beneath the eternal fusillade - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

From shame and menace free - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

Esteeming less the forfeit that he paid - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

Made his breast the bulwark and blood the moat - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

Coveting no higher plane than nature - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

In the anguish of atrocious hours - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

In the wine that ripened where they fell - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"

At some disputed barricade - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

When Spring comes back with rustling shade - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

When Spring brings back blue days and fair - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

And close my eyes and quench my breath - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

On some scarred slope of battered hill - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

Deep pillowed in silk and scented down - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

At midnight in some flaming town - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

And I to my pledged word am true - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

I shall not fail that rendezvous - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

Conceived beneath another star - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Had been a prince and played with life - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

The fair things my faith has merited - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Those that make romance of poverty - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Whispered by summer wind and summer sea - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Known incarnate in the hours it lies all warm - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

This dream that lightened me through lonesome ways - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

That no disappointment made less dear - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

The mist Death only can make clear - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Like Brunhilde ringed with flaming fire - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

What shall ease my heart's immense desire - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

That thought shall nerve our sinews on the day - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

When to the last assault our bugles blow - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Reckless of pain and peril - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"
Hearts aflame and bayonets bare - Alan Seeger "Liebestod"

Lichened stones by fifty years made gray - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

With twigs of lilac and spring's earliest rose - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Not unmindful of the antique debt - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Came back the generous path of Lafayette - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

On those furthest rims of hallowed ground - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Where the forlorn, the gallant charge expires - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Withered beneath the shrapnel's iron showers - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Grim clusters under thorny trellises - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Earth in her divine indifference rolls on - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Prate to be heard and caper to be seen - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

No human presences their witness are - Alan Seeger "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"

Sighs with the muffled tumult of the surf - Alan Seeger "On the Cliffs, Newport"

And through a thousand stars find out the road - Alan Seeger "Resurgam"

Not that I always struck the proper mean - Alan Seeger "Sonnet II [Not that I always struck the proper mean]"

The stars and my high thoughts for company - Alan Seeger "Sonnet II [Not that I always struck the proper mean]"

The sense of space and amplitude - Alan Seeger "Sonnet II [Not that I always struck the proper mean]"

Now that the cream has been skimmed off in you - Alan Seeger "Sonnet IX [Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed)]"

Now turn we joyful to the great attacks - Alan Seeger "Sonnet IX [Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed)]"

Justice trampled on and Courage downed - Alan Seeger "To England at the Outbreak of the Balkan War"


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