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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 back—my 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 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