Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COSSACK SONG, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "you must fly, ye winds of tartary!" Last Line: "the devil himself would run from you, / with your long spears in your hand!" Subject(s): Cossacks;russia; Soviet Union;russians | ||||||||
YOU must fly, ye winds of Tartary! If ye hope to catch our band; For they skim o'er the tall rank grasses, And tramp on the wastes of sand, Swifter than winds or waters, With their long spears in their hand! Ride on! ride on, brave Cossacks! For never a foe will stand; Ye shall break and scatter their craven ranks, As your mad steeds scatter the sand: The devil himself would run from you, With your long spears in your hand! | 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 TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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