Poem by Alan Seeger

Resurgam

Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
 If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence
I have no doubt but, like a homing dove,
 It would return to its dear residence,
And through a thousand stars find out the road
Back into earthly flesh that was its loved abode.

1. On a Theme in the Greek Anthology
2. Thirty Sonnets. 27. Oneata
3. Thirty Sonnets. 26. The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
4. Thirty Sonnets. 24. Coucy
5. Thirty Sonnets. 12. Sonnet 12. Like as a dryad, from her native bole

Emily Dickinson Resurgam ("At last to be identified!")

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