I loved.... / Alan Seeger - Hello poetry

I loved.... / Alan Seeger

I loved.... / Alan Seeger


I loved illustrious 
cities and the crowds 

That eddy through
 their incandescent nights. 

I loved remote 
horizons with far clouds 

Girdled, and fringed
 about with snowy heights. 

I loved fair women, 
their sweet, conscious ways 

Of wearing among 
hands that covet and plead 

The rose ablossom
 at the rainbow's base 

That bounds the 
world's desire and all its need. 

Nature I worshipped,
 whose fecundity

Embraces every vision the most fair, 
Of perfect benediction.

 From a boy 
I gloated on existence. 

Earth to me 
Seemed all-sufficient 
and my sojourn there 
One trembling opportunity for joy.




I loved.... / Alan Seeger