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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I AND YOU, by NIKOLAI (NIKOLAY) STEPANOVICH GUMILEV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I come from another country Last Line: "and harlot will cry: ""friend, arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gumilyov, Nikolay | |||
YES, I come from another country, To your world I can never belong. Tinkling guitars cannot please me, I want a wild desolate song. I do not read my verses in drawing-rooms To black-coats and dresses like shrouds. I read my verses to dragons, To the waterfalls and to the clouds. I love like an Arab in the desert Who flings himself on water and drinks, Not like a knight in a picture Who looks at the stars and thinks. I shall not die in a bedroom With a priest and a lawyer beside me. I shall perish in a terrible ravine With a mass of wild ivy to hide me. I shall not go to a Protestant heaven, Open to all in tidy blue skies, But to a place where thief and publican And harlot will cry: "Friend, arise!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CAPTAINS by NIKOLAI (NIKOLAY) STEPANOVICH GUMILEV OLD SUSAN by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH by WALT WHITMAN A SISTER OF SORROW: 2. WEEPING CROSS by GORDON BOTTOMLEY BOAR'S HILL; OCTOBER, 1919 by VERA MARY BRITTAIN |
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