Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BAIDAR GATE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: O baidar gate! Lone baidar gate! Last Line: "'t is baidar gate! 't is baidar gate!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Baidar, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians | ||||||||
O BAIDAR GATE! lone Baidar Gate! What glories by thy portals wait! -- Beyond the pines, wide-boughed and old, Cliffs such as climb in Alpine hold; Above, the blue Crimean sky Where, in still noons, the eagles fly, And poise as if 't were bliss to be Becalmed upon that azure sea! Below, the Euxine with its sails Fanned by the cool Caucasian gales; And, all between, the glen, the glade, Where Tartar girls their tresses braid, And slopes where silver streamlets run, And grapes hang, purple, in the sun. And when, within the wood-fire's glow, Fond friends tell tales of long ago, And each recalls some lovely scene By mountain pass or meadow green, If they shall turn and ask of me, The rarest glimpse of earth and sea, I'll say, with memory's joy elate, "'T is Baidar Gate! 't is Baidar Gate!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905) by CHARLES REZNIKOFF TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH by CARL SANDBURG READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969 by VIRGIL SUAREZ A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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