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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV Poet's Biography First Line: Sing not, nightingale Last Line: To my soul's maiden! | |||
SING not, nightingale, Under my window; Fly away to the woods Of my own country! Learn to love the window Of my soul's maiden! Sing to her tenderly Of my agony; Sing of me without her, Waning, withering, As the grass on the steppe, Autumn facing it. Without her, at night, The moon's overcast; At midday, without flame The sun goes its way. Without her, who will now Give me kind greeting? And on whose breast shall I Lay my head in repose? Without her, whose word shall Win a smile from me? Whose song, whose welcoming Shall now touch my heart? Why sing, nightingale, Under my window? Fly away, fly away, To my soul's maiden! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN OLD MAN'S SONG by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV OLD MAN'S SONG by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV THE NIGHTINGALE by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV WOMAN'S SONG by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV ECSTASY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON PROVING by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH by ROBERT BROWNING THE RAIN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES SPARKLING AND BRIGHT by CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN THE PROSPECTOR by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 5. NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI by SARA TEASDALE |
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