Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAREWELL TO THE VOLGA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR 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 | ||||||||
FAREWELL, O River of the Plain, O River of the Sea! Fain would I follow to the main Thy current strong and free; And find, beyond thy reedy islands, The sullen Caspian's ocean silence. The kalmuck girls with braided hair, And cap of scarlet crown, Beside their tents, in evening fair, Will watch thy tide go down; And songs of the steppe and its rovers sing, Their swarthy lovers listening. And Kirghis, dark with desert suns, Will halt beside thy brink, While the steed, the brackish spring that shuns, Stoops low, thy wave to drink; Then, fresh and fleet as at dawn of day, Over the plain they'll haste away. Farewell. I feel the west-wind blow; The Asian dream is o'er; And Europe's in the sunset glow, That gilds thy sandy shore. I go where other streams will shine, But none so lone, so grand as thine. | 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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