There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fai…

- Alan Seeger

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall…

- Alan Seeger

Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jew…

- Alan Seeger

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible div…

- Alan Seeger

I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous

- Alan Seeger

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

- Alan Seeger

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

- Alan Seeger

From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy.

- Alan Seeger