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Alan Seeger (Алан Сигер)


Lyonesse


In Lyonesse was beauty enough, men say:
Long Summer loaded the orchards to excess,
And fertile lowlands lengthening far away,
               In Lyonesse.

Came a term to that land's old favoredness:
Past the sea-walls, crumbled in thundering spray,
Rolled the green waves, ravening, merciless.

Through bearded boughs immobile in cool decay,
Where sea-bloom covers corroding palaces,
The mermaid glides with a curious glance to-day,
               In Lyonesse. 



Alan Seeger's other poems:
  1. Sonnet 9. Well, seeing I have no hope, then let us part
  2. Tithonus
  3. Thirty Sonnets. 30. At the Tomb of Napoleon before the Elections in America--November, 1912
  4. Thirty Sonnets. 22. With a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets on Leaving College
  5. All That's Not Love...


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