Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BESSARABIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR 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 | ||||||||
HERE the white cattle graze that feed The Austrian Kaiser's towns, Close-watched by dogs alert to leap If but the herder frowns; And here the shepherd tends his flock While the long days go by, -- Now couched beside them in the plain, Now on the khourgans high. The plover calls across the steppe; The stork, with snowy breast, Flies northward to the kindly roof That holds her summer nest; But nothing stirs his drowsy blood Unless a lamb should stray, Then woe to wolf or gypsy thief That lurks beside the way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905) by CHARLES REZNIKOFF TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH by CARL SANDBURG READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969 by VIRGIL SUAREZ A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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