Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn. Alan Seeger More Quotes by Alan Seeger More Quotes From Alan Seeger From a boy Alan Seeger opportunity boys life So die as though your funeral Alan Seeger hero doors death I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous Alan Seeger rendezvous failing At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth. Alan Seeger golden earth joy 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 not fail that rendezvous. Alan Seeger towns spring years Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness. Alan Seeger light sweet beauty There was a stately drama writ Alan Seeger stars morning drama