Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAREWELL TO THE VOLGA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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FAREWELL TO THE VOLGA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, o river of the plain
Last Line: But none so lone, so grand as thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Russia; Volga River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


FAREWELL, O River of the Plain,
O River of the Sea!
Fain would I follow to the main
Thy current strong and free;
And find, beyond thy reedy islands,
The sullen Caspian's ocean silence.

The kalmuck girls with braided hair,
And cap of scarlet crown,
Beside their tents, in evening fair,
Will watch thy tide go down;
And songs of the steppe and its rovers sing,
Their swarthy lovers listening.

And Kirghis, dark with desert suns,
Will halt beside thy brink,
While the steed, the brackish spring that shuns,
Stoops low, thy wave to drink;
Then, fresh and fleet as at dawn of day,
Over the plain they'll haste away.

Farewell. I feel the west-wind blow;
The Asian dream is o'er;
And Europe's in the sunset glow,
That gilds thy sandy shore.
I go where other streams will shine,
But none so lone, so grand as thine.





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