Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RUSSIAN ART SHOP, by LOUISE HOVDE MORTENSEN


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RUSSIAN ART SHOP, by                    
First Line: Here's jewelry from russia
Last Line: For every woman's glance.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


Here's jewelry from Russia,
Garnets in a star,
Emeralds and opals
From the palace of the Czar.

Rings of silver filigree
For little lobes, and bright
Bracelets set with ruby flame
With clasps of marcasite

Necklaces of amethysts,
Crosses, ebony,
Brooches carved of malachite,
Rings, chalcedony.

Where are all the countesses
Whose jewelry we see?
Some were buried by the Don
And some by the Black Sea.

They'll go no more to Yalta now,
To dine and flirt and dance,
And here their jewels glisten still
For every woman's glance.





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