Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOSCOW BELLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: That distant chime! As soft it swells Last Line: And the thunder's boom below! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bells; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians | ||||||||
THAT distant chime! As soft it swells, What memories o'er me steal! Again I hear the Moscow bells Across the moorland peal! The bells that rock the Kremlin tower Like a strong wind, to and fro, -- Silver sweet in its topmost bower, And the thunder's boom below. They say that oft at Easter dawn When all the world is fair, God's angels out of heaven are drawn To list the music there. And while the rose-clouds with the breeze Drift onward, -- like a dream, High in the ether's pearly seas Their radiant faces gleam. O, when some Merlin with his spells A new delight would bring, Say: I will hear the Moscow bells Across the moorland ring! The bells that rock the Kremlin tower Like a strong wind, to and fro, -- Silver sweet in its topmost bower, And the thunder's boom below! | 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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