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Subject: COSSACKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1648 : FOR COSSACKS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bitter times / the cossack krivno
Last Line: Jewish prey
Subject(s): Cossacks;jews;mysticism - Judaism;pogroms; Judaism


COSSACK CRADLE SONG, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, my little flax haired fairy
Last Line: Sleep, my baby, sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Cossacks


COSSACK CRADLE-SONG, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly, pretty baby, sleeping
Last Line: Bayushki-bayu.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Cossacks


COSSACK SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "you must fly, ye winds of tartary!"
Last Line: "the devil himself would run from you, / with your long spears in your hand!"
Subject(s): Cossacks;russia; Soviet Union;russians


COSSACK'S WINTER SONG, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the don my mother she bore me
Last Line: "from him whom no might can withstand!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund
Subject(s): Cossacks; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE COSSACK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the danube was I riding
Last Line: "how to find her way for crying, / scarce, poor girl, she knew"
Subject(s): Cossacks;russia; Soviet Union;russians


THE COSSACK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cossack! The cossack! His steed is his throne
Last Line: Ho! Drink to the cossack, from border to border!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Cossacks; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


THE SONG OF THE COSSACK, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My courser, come, the cossack's noble friend!
Last Line: When all that men hold sacred lies beneath thy feet.
Subject(s): Cossacks; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling
Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much.
Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War