Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BY THE AZOFF AND EUXINE SEAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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BY THE AZOFF AND EUXINE SEAS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw you ever face so fearless
Last Line: Blossom of the glowing south!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Beauty; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


SAW you ever face so fearless,
Saw you ever face so fair,
As the young Circassian's yonder,
Gazing, mournful, into air?
How his glance, his kingly carriage,
Shame the Mongols couched below! —
Bliss to her who'll call him lover;
Death to him who'll find him foe.

Shade of Helen! there's a Greek girl
Might have dazzled Priam's son!
With such eyes, such shining tresses,
Was thy Trojan bold, undone!
And if Paris were as princely
As the Persian by her side,
All the gods might give thee pity,
Though a royal Spartan's bride.

O these Border-Lands of Asia!
What is in their sun, their air,
That the women grow so beauteous,
That the men such grandeur wear?
Not the goddess loved of Odin,
(Palest brow and perfect mouth),
Charms like this Levantine maiden,
Blossom of the glowing South!





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