I Have A Rendezvous With Death by Alan Seeger — Sad Poetry Lines

"I loved illustrious cities and the crowds     That eddy through their incandescent nights.     I loved remote horizons with far clouds     Gird"

"I fancied, while you stood conversing there,     Superb, in every attitude a queen,     Her ermine thus Boadicea bare,     So moved amid the mu"

"I     First, London, for its myriads; for its height,     Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite;     But Paris for the smoothness of the"

"Oft as by chance, a little while apart     The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,     Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart,"

"The ocean heaves around us still With long and measured swell, The autumn gales our canvas fill, Our ship rides smooth and well. The broad Atlantic's"