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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FRAGMENT: 1, by ALAN SEEGER Poet's Biography First Line: In that fair capital where pleasure, crowned Last Line: Where beauty beckoned and where strength pursued. | |||
In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules, I too have been a suitor. Radiant eyes Were my life's warmth and sunshine, outspread arms My gilded deep horizons. I rejoiced In yielding to all amorous influence And multiple impulsion of the flesh, To feel within my being surge and sway The force that all the stars acknowledge too. Amid the nebulous humanity Where I an atom crawled and cleaved and sundered, I saw a million motions, but one law; And from the city's splendor to my eyes The vapors passed and there was nought but Love, A ferment turbulent, intensely fair, Where Beauty beckoned and where Strength pursued. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE IN MEMORY OF THE AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS FALLEN FOR FRANCE by ALAN SEEGER A MESSAGE TO AMERICA by ALAN SEEGER AN ODE TO ANTARES by ALAN SEEGER AN ODE TO NATURAL BEAUTY by ALAN SEEGER AT THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON BEFORE THE ELECTIONS IN AMERICA by ALAN SEEGER |
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