Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poet's Biography First Line: And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower Last Line: Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Literature; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians | ||||||||
And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower, Where the city barouches only rarely are seen.... There the queen played her Chopin in the high palace tower, And there, listening to Chopin, the young page loved the queen. And what passed there was simple, and what passed there was charming: The fair page cut the pomegranate as red as her dreams, Then the queen gave him half thereof, with graces disarming, She outwearied and loved him in sonata-sweet themes. Then she gave herself stormily, till night shut her lashes. Till the sunset the queen lay, there she slept as a slave.... And it passed by the sea-shore where the turquoise wave washes, Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave. | 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 A RUSSIAN SONG (1) by IGOR SEVERIANIN |
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