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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RUSSIANS Matches Found: 189 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALL TO ISRAEL, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: Where is the modern judah maccabee? Last Line: Arise! Arm! Strike! Do freedom's holy will! Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Oppression; Russia; Liberty; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A CRY FROM RUSSIA, by HERMINE SCHWED Poem Text First Line: Brothers, my brothers-you that are free Last Line: The days are long and bitter for me. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians A NIGHT IN A VILLAGE, by IVAN SAVVICH NIKITIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sultry air, the smoke of shavings Last Line: "trust, my soul, be brave!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Russia; Villages; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him away Last Line: And one of us forgot. Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Soviet Union; Russians A RUSSIAN SONG (1), by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lace and roses in the forest morning shine Last Line: Stir the morning in her, hear its pulses start. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AKHMATOVA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The dark stair's colder than the snow-wan world Last Line: He who would torture for such adulation. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the czar alexander! Last Line: Alexander! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Honor; Praise; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALMA, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though till now ungraced in story Last Line: Alma, roll thy waters proudly, proudly roll them to the sea. Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALUPKA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cross but this rocky height, and lo! Last Line: Alupka, pride of the cliff and wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The Crimean Coast And Alupka Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AMERICA TO RUSSIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though watery deserts hold apart Last Line: We moor our hearts in thee! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AN INSCRIPTION IN THE CRIMEA, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, or huntsman, or worn mariner Last Line: Making it holy. Subject(s): Crimea; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text 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 ASIA AT NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a melon of khiva Last Line: And the spicy melons of asia! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Melons; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AT THE BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word to the guest we have gathered to greet Last Line: How we utter farewell, he will have to return! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians BAIDAR GATE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us strength these days Last Line: Trample it with our love! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Russia; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "brightly, briskly runs the alma, cold and green from mountain snow" Last Line: And the battle of the alma hath been won! Subject(s): Alma River (russia);crimean War (1853-1856);rivers;russia; Soviet Union;russians BATUSCHKA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From yonder gilded minaret Last Line: God save the tsar! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians BESSARABIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the white cattle graze that feed Last Line: That lurks beside the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The Plains Of Bessarabia Subject(s): Bessarabia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians BLOOD V. BULLION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "well then, it now appears you need my help" Last Line: Hath a dog money?'' blood's response is-'nay!' Subject(s): Jews;jews - Persecution;russia;tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism;soviet Union;russians BORODINO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one foot in the stirrup, one hand on the mane" Last Line: Only love turns away from the revelling crowd / to her own on the plain Subject(s): "borodino, Battle Of (1812);russia;russia - Napoleonic War;" Soviet Union;russians BY THE ALMA RIVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willie, fold your little hands Last Line: "by the alma river." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Absence; Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; War; Separation; Isolation; Soviet Union; Russians BY THE AZOFF AND EUXINE SEAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 CAUCASUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fit throne for such a power! Magnificent! Last Line: Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CAUCASUS (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight / the moon arose: and lo! The ethereal cliffs Last Line: Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CEMETRY OF THE SMOLENSKI CHURCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gather, with the summer in their hands Last Line: The future has its hope, the past its deep affection. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cemeteries; Russia; Smolensk, Russia; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians COSSACK SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 COSSACK'S WINTER SONG, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the don my mother she bore me Last Line: "from him whom no might can withstand!" Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Cossacks; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians DONICA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock, whose castled shade Last Line: The livid corpse fell dead. Subject(s): Arlinkow, Finland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians DUMA OR ELEGY TO THE HETMAN JOHN SWIERGOWSKI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the hetman john swiergowski Last Line: "where by kilia's fair city the tomb stands high, / on the turkish line doth your hetman lie" Subject(s): "kilia, Russia;russia;" "kilianova, Russia;soviet Union;russians; ELEGY OF THE FLIGHT OF THE THREE BROTHERS FROM AZOFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dark clouds give not forth those specks in the sky Last Line: "they raised, and long mocked o'er the brethen twain" Subject(s): "azof, Russia;russia;" Soviet Union;russians EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, sweet bells of the russias Last Line: Than throned as the conquering tzar! Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Slavery; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians; Serfs ESTONIAN BRIDAL SONG, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deck thyself, maiden Last Line: Thou wilt weep all thy life. Subject(s): Estonia; Russia; Wedding Song; Soviet Union; Russians; Epithalamium FAREWELL TO THE VOLGA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If on this verse of mine Last Line: Take thee to joy when hand and heart are still! Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians GRAVE OF HOWARD, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Howard! It matters not that far away Last Line: To think, -- on yonder shore the christian died. Subject(s): Kherson, Russia; Russia; Tatars; Soviet Union; Russians; Tartars GULLIVER BOUND, by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS Poem Text First Line: How could you let them dupe you and betray Last Line: Shall yet find wings! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians GULLIVER WAKES, by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS Poem Text First Line: Long he has lain asleep Last Line: Free! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians HOLY RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard how holy russia Last Line: Shall holy russia be! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Religion; Russia; Theology; Soviet Union; Russians IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it. Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young jew. The weed of their hatred Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "glows once more in the russian sky, the blood" Last Line: "my brother, jesus of nazareth" Subject(s): Catholics;jesus Christ;jews;russia; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism;soviet Union;russians ISRAEL IN RUSSIA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art but one! O god to whom we bow Last Line: "father! Forgive them!" Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians IVAN IVANOVITCH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, your carpenters,' quoth I to my friend the russ Last Line: "as air to walk abroad. ""how otherwise?"" asked he." Subject(s): Carpenters; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians IVAN THE CZAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in silence on the ground Last Line: Humbly the conqueror died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ivan Iii, Czar Of Russia (1440-1505); Novgorod, Russia; Russia; Women; Ivan The Great; Soviet Union; Russians KAZAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kazan looks down from the volga wall Last Line: Sound from her towers together. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Kazan, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians KIEFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O kieff! Where religion ever seemeth Last Line: "and thou alone, by these still gray walls, o river! / murmest, dnieper, still, and flow'st for ever Subject(s): "dnieper River, Russia;kiev, Ukraine;russia;" "dnept River, Russia;soviet Union;russians; LAMENT FOR THE YESSAUL PUSHKAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There flows a little river Last Line: An orphan left art thou Subject(s): "russia;worskla River, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians LAPLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As ere from lieule-oaive's vapory head Last Line: Dance sportively. Subject(s): Lapland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LAPLAND, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not such the sons of lapland: wisely they Last Line: By small degrees extends the swelling curve! Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Lapland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LENIN, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was he? Leader of the world Last Line: Are a guiding light forever lit. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LENIN, SELECTION, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Text First Line: So I came down the steps to lenin Last Line: When they carried him down to the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would surely be known for years after as the day I shot Last Line: Be trailed, got in my car and drove to new york nonstop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of those little five-dollar-a-week rooms smelling thick of Last Line: Blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today we've moved back to the granary again and I've anointed Last Line: Could be made a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 1; TO D.G., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This matted and glossy photo of yesenin Last Line: Years before the articulate noose. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Memory; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 28; TO ROBERT DUNCAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O to use the word winged as in bird or victory or airplane for Last Line: Flapped your arms madly, unwinged but craving a little flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to feel exalted so I picked up Last Line: Stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Martyrs; Regret; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 5, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lustra. Officially the cold comes from manitoba Last Line: With endless thirst. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine; Soviet Union; Russians LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit nurtured in democracy Last Line: Or murder with his silent bloody feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Terrorism; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians LURID LIVES: RASPUTIN (TO HIS BAND OF COURT LADIES & OTHER SATELLITES), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build an altar in my chamber Last Line: With a holy pleasure. Subject(s): God; Rasputin, Grigory (1872-1916); Religion; Russia; Theology; Soviet Union; Russians MOSCOW, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How thy church domes swell yonder, amply rounded! Last Line: And conquering st. George his lance hath shaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians MOSCOW, by CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spires of moscow glittering from afar Last Line: Point their red spires, and sail along the sky. Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians MOSCOW BELLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That distant chime! As soft it swells Last Line: And the thunder's boom below! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bells; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians MY COUNTRY, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patriot I am, but in so strange a fashion Last Line: The heart to hear their talk, these tipsy lads! Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN Poem Text First Line: Fall on your face Last Line: Hosannah in the highest! Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of time Last Line: God's image, sister of the seraphim. Subject(s): Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia; Holidays; New Year; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ODESSA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreaming and looking seaward Last Line: That makes the fate his prey! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Odessa, Ukraine; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ON THE RUSSIAN PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, by lying tongues adored Last Line: In death's worst hour the works of christian men? Variant Title(s): On The Russian Persecution Of Jews Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians ON THE RUSSIAN WAR IN THE CRIMEA: 1854-55, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold with awe, and high adoring wonder Last Line: Britannia wars to loose, not bind the chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Europe; Russia; War; Soviet Union; Russians OVER THE STEPPE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Heard you that horseman? How madly he rides! Last Line: And lo! 'twas the wind and the moonbeam no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians OVID IN PONTUS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the banished euxine (a black doom!) Last Line: Have sought to find it on that desert beach. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Black Sea; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians OWED' TO MY POCKET-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "how fair thou art, o little book" Last Line: Will carry all my money Subject(s): Books;money;russia; Reading;soviet Union;russians OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's characteristic of a russian novelist to reveal some lack Last Line: "might correspond to what you Subject(s): Russia; Novels & Novelists; Soviet Union; Russians OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 80, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two rams, which ram redeemed Last Line: We will believe everything we say Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians PASSAGE OF THE BERESINA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On with the cohorts, on! -- a darkening cloud Last Line: Is better passport at the gate of heaven. Subject(s): Beresina River (russia); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POETRY AND SORROW IN A 'RIGHT-TO-SING' STATE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music strikes / back, but doesn't walk off the job Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POLAND, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, beneath the tower whence issue forth Last Line: And humbly seeks for succor ere she dies! Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians PRAY FOR POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not unwept, unsung thy wrongs have been Last Line: Who reigns, and rules, and lives for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Poland; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians PRINCE EMILIUS OF HESSE-DARMSTADT, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hesse-darmstadt every step to moskwa's blazing banks Last Line: These are the holy balsam-drops that woeful wars distil. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moskva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blacken thy heavens, jove Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cover thy spacious heavens, zeus Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One after one the stars have risen and set Last Line: And patience, which at last shall overcome. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PULTOWA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint in his wounds and shivering in the blast Last Line: And charles beheld, -- nor shuddered at the sight. Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians READING THE RUSSIANS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course they are gloomy; / they drink a lot of vodka Last Line: Chernobyl, and gogol's nose. Subject(s): Books; Russia; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Soviet Union; Russians RIVER OF MEMORIES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: Where the blue waters of the neva Last Line: Hark to the water's broken song. Subject(s): Memory; Neva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sons, how many generations Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar. Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To sin, unshamed, to lose, unthinking Last Line: Are you, my russia, even so. Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: Tramp, tramp, tramp Last Line: Of plodding feet. Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the dauntless spirit Last Line: And the despot's rule shall die. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Russia; Tyranny & Tyrants; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA AND THE JEWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o muscovite, blind is your wrath, with" Last Line: Yet the hebrew abides and is strong Subject(s): Jews;persecution;russia; Judaism;soviet Union;russians RUSSIA: 1918, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last! Last Line: A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Revolutions; Russia; Russian Revolution; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIAN ART SHOP, by LOUISE HOVDE MORTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Here's jewelry from russia Last Line: For every woman's glance. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians SAINT PETERSBURG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Thou bright moon, batyushka!" Last Line: "having become orphans, we have lost all strength" Subject(s): "russia;saint Petersburg, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians;leningrad;petrograd SAINT PETERSBURG, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See! From the finland marshes there Last Line: Beams all the dusky distance through! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd SEVASTOPOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dead is a syrian sky Last Line: "and sighs above them, ""alas for glory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The English Cemetery At Sevastopol Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians SIBERIA, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In siberia's wastes / the ice-wind's breath Last Line: His last breath was drawn. Subject(s): Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians SIBERIA, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thence winding eastward to the tartar's coast Last Line: Through all this dreary labyrinth of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians SIR SAVA AND THE LESCHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With the lord at nemirov Last Line: The young wife of sir sava / by him a window stood Subject(s): Mythology - Russian;russia; Soviet Union;russians SOFIE JAKOBOWSKI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little sofie jakobowski Last Line: Yohn and ole petersen. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At saratoff and tzaritozine Last Line: "the mercy dance, the joyous song" Subject(s): "russia;volga River, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians SONG OF THE GOOD TZAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Russia had a noble tzar Last Line: "tell me, have ye ever found / such a prince the world around?" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "across the don a plank lay, thin and bending" Last Line: "they cannot hear my voice, / they cannot see my burning tears" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 10, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "burr me, brothers, between three roads" Last Line: "a son of the brigand, the bold stenka razin!" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 11, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dark mountain has grown black Last Line: There went up voices to the heavens Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 12, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "shower, shower!" Last Line: Warm us young ones Subject(s): Rain;russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 13, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the house of my own father Last Line: "I shall have to dry you, o ruddy tresses, / in the longing of my grief" Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "go down, o ruddy sun!" Last Line: Away from him my life is sad Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'why, o dove, art thou so joyless?'" Last Line: Wounded her with a weapon of gold Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "misty is the sunlight, misty" Last Line: And coffin boards my bosom white conceal Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o winds, warm winds" Last Line: And let me for the last of times / to my beloved one say farewell Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If god would grant my love his health Last Line: "that we two loved each other tenderly, / and loyally, my love, together died" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from under the stone, the white stone" Last Line: "awake, awake, o maiden fair, / o maiden fair, my olden love!" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whither shall I, the fair maiden, flee from sorrow?" Last Line: "I have driven, I have driven, the maiden into the damp earth" Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 8, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oak wood, dear oak wood" Last Line: "he has lured her, - and now / fain would fling her aside" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 9, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah! On the hill a pine-tree stands! Last Line: His death! Dear lord! Beneath the pine Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians STIGMATA, by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose the flying hands, about me shedding Last Line: On the pierced palms of these outstretched hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerienko-voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich; Voloshin, Ma Subject(s): Russia; Spirituality; Soviet Union; Russians SUNSET IN MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the splendor of the city Last Line: Chill the wind of midnight blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Moscow At Evening Subject(s): Evening; Moscow; Russia; Sunset; Twilight; Soviet Union; Russians TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii; Soviet Union; Russians; Second World War THE ARGO NEARING COLCHIS, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, with the wind behind them, and the oars Last Line: By many another farther and more near. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vorska's glittering waves Last Line: Now, patkul, may thine injured spirit rest! Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians THE BATTLE-FIELD OF RASZYN, by KAZIMIERZ BRODZINSKI Poem Text First Line: A balmy air is up, the night is still Last Line: Clamoring for vengeance? Ah! We hear ye not. Alternate Author Name(s): Brodsinski, Casimir Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave Last Line: And dolphins gambol in the lion's den! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward Last Line: Noble six hundred! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frozen marshes Last Line: "is the brother of the finn!" Subject(s): Finland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE COSSACK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From the danube was I riding Last Line: "how to find her way for crying, / scarce, poor girl, she knew" Subject(s): Cossacks;russia; Soviet Union;russians THE COSSACK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cossack! The cossack! His steed is his throne Last Line: Ho! Drink to the cossack, from border to border! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cossacks; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CRIMEAN TARTARS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still the tartar loves the shores Last Line: "allah requite us in paradise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Yalta And The Crimean Tartars Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CROWN JEWELS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eye of a god was this blazing stone Last Line: In the fairy plots of a palace garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Crowns; Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd THE CZAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now who is he with lofty mien Last Line: The czar! God save the czar! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CZAR PASSES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: One july noon when I was twelve Last Line: After the czar had passed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Russia; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Soviet Union; Russians THE DEATH OF LENIN, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's time that I began Last Line: The prison-cells of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DIAMOND PERSONA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians THE DIVISION OF POLAND, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon earth's lap there lay a pleasant land Last Line: "and cry exulting, ""yea, there is a god!" Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DNIEPER, by ? JAROSLATEZ Poem Text First Line: When the tired sun turneth sleeper Last Line: On other heads than mine! Subject(s): Dnieper River, Russia; Russia; Dnept River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DWINA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "stony-browed dwina, thy face is as flint!" Last Line: "'neath the dead, silent river, so rigid and still" Subject(s): "dwina, River (russia);russia;" Soviet Union;russians THE FAIR OF NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by the tower of babel Last Line: Was ever such a crowd? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Festivals; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Fairs; Pageants; Soviet Union; Russians THE FATHER OF THE REGIMENT, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick snow-wreaths weighed upon the furs Last Line: From russian sword and ball. Subject(s): Dnieper River, Russia; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Dnept River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE FEAST OF PETER THE GREAT, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the neva gayly dancing Last Line: All the neva from afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Peter I, Czar Of Russia (1672-1725); Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Peter The Great; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magnificence of ruin! What has time Last Line: Must fly, toil, bleed for home; yet never see that home. Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humanity, delighting to behold Last Line: A soundless waste, a trackless vacancy! Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eldest times, when kings and hardy chiefs Last Line: Of pipes unnumbered, for the ram regained. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But jason, going swiftly with good heart Last Line: That loudly clanged his armor therewithal. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE GYPSY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay! Tell us not of curtained walls! Last Line: Follow our bidding, foul or fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Russia; Palmistry; Gipsies; Soviet Union; Russians THE INVASION OF THE TARTARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "plundering are the tartars, / plundering jashdow castle" Last Line: "a slave for life to be, / far, far in tartary!" Subject(s): "jashdow Castle, Poland;russia;tatars;" Soviet Union;russians;tartars THE JEWISH SOLDIER (2), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the walls of plevna, not fifty yards away Last Line: And on gatschina's palace forevermore they lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD DOYLE Poem Text First Line: From town and village to a wood, stript bare Last Line: "till they draw lightning from jehovah's eyes." Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE KING'S JEWEL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a night to make the bravest Last Line: "and he hath delivered thee!" Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Soviet Union; Russians THE KISHINEFF MASSACRE, by ROSE STRAUSS Poem Text First Line: O lord, thy righteous wrath and vengeance pour Last Line: Will not be deaf, but with thy thunder smite. Subject(s): Jews; Massacres; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE LAST TEN OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT, by JULIUS MOSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand soldiers knelt in warsaw's square Last Line: "in 'poland's fourth' we are the only ten." Subject(s): Army - Poland; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians THE MARCH TO MOSCOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor nap he would set off Last Line: As there was on the road from moscow. Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE NEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk, as in a dream Last Line: Between his isles: he keeps his secret well. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Neva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE PALACE OF AEETES, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these thoughts, between the fair streets led Last Line: Upon the polished edges of the stream. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE PALACE OF OMARTES, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Omartes, king of the wide plains Last Line: Shivered, and, parting, round him wrapt his mantle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE POWER OF RUSSIA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So all this gallant blood has gushe'd in vain Last Line: Our setting star is your misfortunes' rising morn.' Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow snow-fog curdled thick Last Line: The carriage disappeared. Subject(s): Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians THE RIVER DON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "father of ours! Famous, quiet don!" Last Line: Deprived of them my shoals are thick with sand Subject(s): "don, River (russia);russia;" Soviet Union;russians THE RIVER DON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O placid don! I see thee flow Last Line: With cross above, thy waters by. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Don, River (russia); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go backmy girl is american born. Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUSSIAN EXILE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But what is this? Our infant winter sinks Last Line: Hardens his heart against assailing want. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Exiles; Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUSSIAN JEWISH RABBI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "old and gray, his shoulders bent" Last Line: In your heart a deathly moan Subject(s): Clergy;jews;russia;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism;soviet Union;russians;sunday THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The people, the russian people Last Line: Lost in the dawn at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Patriotism; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUSSIAN STUDENT'S TALE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight sun with phantom glare Last Line: The last sob of a nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Russia; Schools; Soviet Union; Russians; Students THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How salt the tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians THE SHRINES OF MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above each gate a blessed saint Last Line: They are the stars, and she the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Kremlin, Moscow; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE SIEGE OF DJKXPRWBZ, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before a turkish town Last Line: Consonant they had. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Russia; Turkey; War; Soviet Union; Russians THE SKELETON OF THE FUTURE; AT LENIN'S TOMB, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red granite and black diorite, with the blue Last Line: The eternal lightning of lenin's bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Graves; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Tombs; Tombstones; Soviet Union; Russians THE SONG OF THE COSSACK, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: My courser, come, the cossack's noble friend! Last Line: When all that men hold sacred lies beneath thy feet. Subject(s): Cossacks; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE SOVIET, by LOUISE WINDSOR Poem Text First Line: They say the state is all Last Line: The state, their all in all. Subject(s): Communism; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pitched tents on the grounds of lenin's park Last Line: Of those russian elephants, the lost rumbling of a man, his son Subject(s): Circus; Cuba; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE STORMING OF AZOF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The poor soldiers have no rest Last Line: No! In the rills and rivers and streams / turkish blood so red! Subject(s): "azof, Russia;russia;" Soviet Union;russians THE TIGER, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath odessa's foreland Last Line: Shall bring him better rest. Subject(s): Odessa, Ukraine; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE TRUMPETS OF DOOLKARNEIN, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With awful walls, for glooming, that possessed Last Line: But heaven and earth abide their time, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians THE VOLGA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still we kept the volga's tide Last Line: On either side was the grassy sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The Lower Volga Subject(s): Russia; Volga River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE WHITE CZAR (PETER THE GREAT), by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou see on the rampart's height Last Line: "batyushka! Gosudar!" Subject(s): Peter I, Czar Of Russia (1672-1725); Russia; Peter The Great; Soviet Union; Russians THESE DAYS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Text First Line: In the mausoleum lies the corpse of a man who rode Subject(s): Change; Death; Russia; Time; Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians THIS RUSSIAN SOIL, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lockets for a charm we do not wear it Last Line: To receive and embrace us and turn us to clay. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians TO MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the steppe we journeyed Last Line: The jewel of the czars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians TO RUSSIA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who tamed your lawless tartar blood? Last Line: Your jew! Your jew! Your hated jew! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians TO THE ARMY OF THE DON, by N. M. SHATROFF Poem Text First Line: Moskva is stunned with the thunder-storm's rattle Last Line: Strong in the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Shatrov, N. M. Subject(s): Army - Russia; Don, River (russia); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians TROITSA MONASTERY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred troitsa! When the skies Last Line: For the lord of the saints is here as there! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Monasteries; Russia; Troitzka, Russia; Abbeys; Soviet Union; Russians; Troitsa, Russia UNIVERSAL PEACE, by MARGARET FRATER HILL Poem Text First Line: The angels sang of peace, to men good will Last Line: To break war's chains that still our world do bind. Subject(s): Peace; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians UNTO THE END, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Heroic words, like a trumpet's blast Last Line: Endure unto the end. Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Russia; Soldiers; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War UTVINSK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the famous river utva Last Line: That field was moistened / with burning cossack tears Subject(s): "russia;utvinsk, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians VOLGA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age is in their wasted features Last Line: What the master, jesus, said. Subject(s): Russia; Volga River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians WELCOME TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadowed so long by the storm-cloud of danger Last Line: Strength to her people! Long life to the czar! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians YARILA, by SERGEI GORODETSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First to sharpen the ax-flint they bent Last Line: A new god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Russian; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians |
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