Poem by Alan Seeger

Thirty Sonnets. 5. Sonnet 5. A tide of beauty with returning May

A tide of beauty with returning May
Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume
Odors endeared; down avenues in bloom
The chestnut-trees with phallic spires are gay.
Over the terrace flows the thronged cafe;
The boulevards are streams of hurrying sound;
And through the streets, like veins when they abound,
The lust for pleasure throbs itself away.
Here let me live, here let me still pursue
Phantoms of bliss that beckon and recede, --
Thy strange allurements, City that I love,
Maze of romance, where I have followed too
The dream Youth treasures of its dearest need
And stars beyond thy towers bring tidings of.

1. Tithonus
2. Thirty Sonnets. 15. Sonnet 15. Above the ruin of God's holy place
3. Thirty Sonnets. 13. Sonnet 13. I fancied, while you stood conversing there
4. Thirty Sonnets. 30. At the Tomb of Napoleon before the Elections in America--November, 1912
5. The Sultan's Palace

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