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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RUSSIA Matches Found: 423 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2-NOV, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For seven days and nights moscow had staggered Last Line: Not mozart and salieri nor the gypsies %could stisfy my longing on that day Subject(s): Absence; Russia 341, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mounds of human heads recede in the distance Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era A CALL TO ISRAEL, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: Where is the modern judah maccabee? Last Line: Arise! Arm! Strike! Do freedom's holy will! Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Oppression; Russia; Liberty; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A CRY FROM RUSSIA, by HERMINE SCHWED Poem Text First Line: Brothers, my brothers-you that are free Last Line: The days are long and bitter for me. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians A NIGHT IN A VILLAGE, by IVAN SAVVICH NIKITIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sultry air, the smoke of shavings Last Line: "trust, my soul, be brave!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Russia; Villages; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sent him away Last Line: And one of us forgot. Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Soviet Union; Russians A RUSSIAN SONG (1), by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lace and roses in the forest morning shine Last Line: Stir the morning in her, hear its pulses start. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians A THOUSAND YEARS (NOVGOROD, RUSSIA), by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years! Through storm and fire Last Line: And one to guard the land of morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Novgorod, Russia AKHMATOVA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The dark stair's colder than the snow-wan world Last Line: He who would torture for such adulation. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AKHMATOVA, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966); Poetry And Poets; Russia - Stalin Era ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the czar alexander! Last Line: Alexander! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Honor; Praise; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALL HAIL TO THE CZAR!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the czar! By the fringe of the foam Last Line: "than had lived to hear silent -- ""all hail to the czar!" Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881) ALMA, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though till now ungraced in story Last Line: Alma, roll thy waters proudly, proudly roll them to the sea. Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ALUPKA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cross but this rocky height, and lo! Last Line: Alupka, pride of the cliff and wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The Crimean Coast And Alupka Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AMERICA TO RUSSIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though watery deserts hold apart Last Line: We moor our hearts in thee! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AN INSCRIPTION IN THE CRIMEA, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, or huntsman, or worn mariner Last Line: Making it holy. Subject(s): Crimea; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AND HERE, IN DEFIANCE OF THE FACT, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: About those who have died in the night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era AND IT PASSED BY THE SEA-SHORE; POEZA MIGNONETTE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And it passed by the sea-shore, where the foam-laces flower Last Line: Where sonatas are singing and where foam frets the wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Literature; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians APPROACHING BLUE, by MARCEL BEYER Poem Source First Line: She spoons blue from a barrel Last Line: Flickering shoe and blue hand Subject(s): Blue (color); Russia ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster. Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The ASIA AT NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a melon of khiva Last Line: And the spicy melons of asia! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Melons; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ASPHYXIATED MAN, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: Green bushes are bursting with giant flowers Last Line: I who have nothing for him but this absurd remorse Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era AT THE BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word to the guest we have gathered to greet Last Line: How we utter farewell, he will have to return! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE, SELS., by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era AT THE TOP OF MY VOICE, SELS., by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My verse will reach you Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Shoah; Judaism BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Last Line: I am a true russian! Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms BAIDAR GATE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O baidar gate! Lone baidar gate! Last Line: "'t is baidar gate! 't is baidar gate!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Baidar, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians BALLAD OF LENIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrade lenin of russia Last Line: The world is our room Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia BALLAD OF LENIN'S TOMB, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the yarn he told to me Last Line: To figger out how far Subject(s): Communism; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, give us strength these days Last Line: Trample it with our love! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Russia; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "brightly, briskly runs the alma, cold and green from mountain snow" Last Line: And the battle of the alma hath been won! Subject(s): Alma River (russia);crimean War (1853-1856);rivers;russia; Soviet Union;russians BATUSCHKA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From yonder gilded minaret Last Line: God save the tsar! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL DAY (A SYMPHONY), by DANIIL IUVACHEV Poem Source First Line: The rooster had hardly crowed when timofey jumped out of the window Last Line: Thus began a beautiful summer day Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BESSARABIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 BLIND HORSES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The proletariat for your messiah, the poor and many are to seize power Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BLIND HORSES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The proletariat for your messiah, the poor and many are to seize power Last Line: The ages like blind horses turning a mill tread their own hoof-marks. Whose corn's ground in that mi Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era BLOOD V. BULLION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "well then, it now appears you need my help" Last Line: Hath a dog money?'' blood's response is-'nay!' Subject(s): Jews;jews - Persecution;russia;tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism;soviet Union;russians BORODINO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one foot in the stirrup, one hand on the mane" Last Line: Only love turns away from the revelling crowd / to her own on the plain Subject(s): "borodino, Battle Of (1812);russia;russia - Napoleonic War;" Soviet Union;russians BREAD-KNIFE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hugh macdiarmid the voice Last Line: This kind of poetry must be Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Macdiarmid, Hugh (christopher Grieve); Poetry And Poets; Russia BRODSKY IN EXILE, by AMY SCATTERGOOD Poem Source First Line: He left russia with only his typewriter Last Line: (it's trial underway) and flew like history over tired, sleeping europe Subject(s): Exiles; Russia BUT ONLY NOT TO THINK ABOUT THE JOURNEY, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Last Line: Keep me from harm - and I'll watch over you Subject(s): Russia BY THE ALMA, by JAMES DAWSON Poem Source First Line: You have found me out at last, will, sit down beside me here Variant Title(s): After The Battl Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers BY THE ALMA RIVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willie, fold your little hands Last Line: "by the alma river." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Absence; Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; War; Separation; Isolation; Soviet Union; Russians BY THE AZOFF AND EUXINE SEAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw you ever face so fearless Last Line: Blossom of the glowing south! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Beauty; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians CALL OF THE LAKE; TO THE MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF FASCISM, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if our sneakers froze to the ground Last Line: The stunned reservoir %of life, of a cloud, of height Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Fascism And Fascists; Russia CAUCASUS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fit throne for such a power! Magnificent! Last Line: Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CAUCASUS (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight / the moon arose: and lo! The ethereal cliffs Last Line: Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians CEMETRY OF THE SMOLENSKI CHURCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gather, with the summer in their hands Last Line: The future has its hope, the past its deep affection. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cemeteries; Russia; Smolensk, Russia; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians CHRIST IS RISEN: 23, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Russia %my country Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Russia CONSTELLATION OF DEAD BROTHERS, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: Andre who was killed in riga Last Line: The course is set on hope Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era 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 CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not weep for me, mother Last Line: There, no one dared to look Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era CZAR ALEXANDER THE SECOND, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From him did forty million serfs, endow'd Last Line: To god bears witness of his people's woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Assassination DEAD ELK ON THE TUNDRA BESIDE THE TOURIST PATH, by ROBERT TREMMEL Poem Source First Line: It is the summer of snow Last Line: In the palms of our hands Subject(s): Russia; Summer DESPOTISM TEMPERED BY DYNAMITE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no other title in the world Last Line: With tenfold terror to my crowning day Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Tyranny And Tyrants DEVELOPER'S LANDSCAPE: POLYWATER, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: In class, we took notes on the polywater lecture Last Line: Its sailors, like hair, into the mutant waves Subject(s): Russia; Space And Space Travel DIALECTIC, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: We were born %in the time of the first perfected machine guns Last Line: Let's go, let's go, let's go! Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era DONICA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on a rock, whose castled shade Last Line: The livid corpse fell dead. Subject(s): Arlinkow, Finland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians DUMA OR ELEGY TO THE HETMAN JOHN SWIERGOWSKI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the hetman john swiergowski Last Line: "where by kilia's fair city the tomb stands high, / on the turkish line doth your hetman lie" Subject(s): "kilia, Russia;russia;" "kilianova, Russia;soviet Union;russians; ELDER-BLOSSOM, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes %babel, isaak Last Line: Might die %of your forgetfulness Subject(s): Babel, Isaac (1894-1941); Babel, Tower Of; Russia - Pogroms; Writing And Writers ELEGY OF THE FLIGHT OF THE THREE BROTHERS FROM AZOFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dark clouds give not forth those specks in the sky Last Line: "they raised, and long mocked o'er the brethen twain" Subject(s): "azof, Russia;russia;" Soviet Union;russians EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, sweet bells of the russias Last Line: Than throned as the conquering tzar! Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Slavery; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians; Serfs EMILIE PLATER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rainbow of the battle-storm Last Line: Then was thy fitting time to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Poland - Wars With Russia ESTONIAN BRIDAL SONG, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deck thyself, maiden Last Line: Thou wilt weep all thy life. Subject(s): Estonia; Russia; Wedding Song; Soviet Union; Russians; Epithalamium EUROPA: 6. PERESTROIKA: A TOAST, by WILLIAM LOGAN Poem Source First Line: In this our fallen city, unrefined Last Line: Spinning like drunken morris dancers Subject(s): Russia EVENT ON THE STREET, by DANIIL IUVACHEV Poem Source First Line: Once a man jumped out of a streetcar, but so clumsily that he fell Last Line: And even ivan semyonpvich karpov went into a restaurant Subject(s): Heroism; Russia - Stalin Era EVERYONE LEFT AND NO ONE RETURNED, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I would rather, as of the city's 'crazies,' %be wandering through the dying squares Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era FAREWELL TO THE VOLGA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 FATHERLAND, by DMITRI (DMITRY) VLADIMIROVICH VENEVITINOV Poem Source First Line: How ugly nature is here, truly Subject(s): Russia FIVE DAYS AND NIGHTS, by VERA INBER Poem Source First Line: Before they closed him in the tomb Last Line: Close watch the sentinel moon kept, %solemn and wan Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia FLAGS, SCROLLS, ROBES, DESERTS, WAVES, SELS, by PHILIP KOBYLARZ Poem Source First Line: A slug. Many wrinkles in sand. The beach is silent after the storm Last Line: Chair when its resting. Clouds another form of ash. We forget the %mementos Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Russia; Seashore FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If on this verse of mine Last Line: Take thee to joy when hand and heart are still! Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians FOR A SISTER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trust none of them. Only my existence Last Line: To light the stove, get out the typewriter and begin again. Your story Subject(s): Russia; Social Protest FOREIGN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Artsybashev is a russian Last Line: Hardly of great moment. Subject(s): Russia FOXTROT U-521, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: When I was in vancouver Last Line: Overpriced %tourist attraction Subject(s): Russia FRESCO COME TO LIFE, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shells were falling Last Line: Already rages, not a dream, %approaching, and magnificent Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era FRIENDSHIP OF THE PEOPLES, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: Six empty vodka bottles on the table Last Line: Intently. I can hardly %understand a word Subject(s): Russia GARDEN OF DISORDER: 4, by CHARLES HENRI FORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lenin has withdrawn to a dialectic Last Line: In may's revolving botany: boquets of terror %from the garden of revolution Alternate Author Name(s): Ford, Charles Henry Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia GARLAND FOR A PROPAGANDIST, by TED PAUKER Poem Source First Line: In good old stalin's early days Last Line: Whichever way its line may twist %I'll be a party hack, sir! Subject(s): Communism; Russia - Stalin Era GEESE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brittle winter afternoon in moscow, the american Last Line: Too, although we never see it happening' %-- a thread in the lining Subject(s): Houdini, Harry (1874-1926); Jews; Russia GRAVE OF HOWARD, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Howard! It matters not that far away Last Line: To think, -- on yonder shore the christian died. Subject(s): Kherson, Russia; Russia; Tatars; Soviet Union; Russians; Tartars GULLIVER BOUND, by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS Poem Text First Line: How could you let them dupe you and betray Last Line: Shall yet find wings! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians GULLIVER WAKES, by ELEANOR PRESTON WATKINS Poem Text First Line: Long he has lain asleep Last Line: Free! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians HAMLET, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The buzz subsides. I have come on stage Last Line: Life is not a stroll across a field Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era HANDS, by VICTOR LVOVICH KIBALCHICH Poem Source First Line: What astonishing contact, old man, your hands establish with our own! Last Line: A single ray of light falls from one hand to the other, %dazzling Subject(s): Hands; Russia - Stalin Era HARK! THE VESPER HYMN IS STEALING, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: To the shore, it dies along: %jubilate, amen Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Russia HEIRS OF STALIN, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mute was the marble Last Line: That stalin still lives in the mausoleum Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era HERE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF GIRLS FIGHT, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wear the untamable with hunger Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia HOLY RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard how holy russia Last Line: Shall holy russia be! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Religion; Russia; Theology; Soviet Union; Russians HOUSE IN ST. PETERSBURG, by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Source First Line: If my mother had never been the protected child Last Line: I would not be singing her song Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Saint Petersburg, Russia HYMN OF THE SOVIET UNION, by SERGEI MIHALKOV Poem Source First Line: Republic, forver, the land of the free Last Line: Long may she live, our motherland, etc Subject(s): Freedom; Russia I AM NOT WITH THOSE WHO ABANDONED THEIR LAND, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But there is no people on earth more tearless %more simple and more full of pride Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia I WAS WASHING OUTSIDE IN THE DARKNESS, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth's moving nearer to truth and to dread Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era I WILL TEND THESE RICH, BLACK BEDS, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I bring my penitential soul %and flowers from the russian earth Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it. Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young jew. The weed of their hatred Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young jew. The weed of their hatred Last Line: Raining its sound %from the wide sky Subject(s): Jews; Russia IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "glows once more in the russian sky, the blood" Last Line: "my brother, jesus of nazareth" Subject(s): Catholics;jesus Christ;jews;russia; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism;soviet Union;russians INSCRIPTIONS: 1944-1956, SELECTION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the strong, sweetness; Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism ISRAEL IN RUSSIA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art but one! O god to whom we bow Last Line: "father! Forgive them!" Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians IVAN IVANOVITCH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, your carpenters,' quoth I to my friend the russ Last Line: "as air to walk abroad. ""how otherwise?"" asked he." Subject(s): Carpenters; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians IVAN THE CZAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in silence on the ground Last Line: Humbly the conqueror died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ivan Iii, Czar Of Russia (1440-1505); Novgorod, Russia; Russia; Women; Ivan The Great; Soviet Union; Russians KAZAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kazan looks down from the volga wall Last Line: Sound from her towers together. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Kazan, Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians KIEFF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O kieff! Where religion ever seemeth Last Line: "and thou alone, by these still gray walls, o river! / murmest, dnieper, still, and flow'st for ever Subject(s): "dnieper River, Russia;kiev, Ukraine;russia;" "dnept River, Russia;soviet Union;russians; LAMENT FOR THE YESSAUL PUSHKAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There flows a little river Last Line: An orphan left art thou Subject(s): "russia;worskla River, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians LAND OF MINE, WHERE I WAS BRED, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Steppe and cloud and blowing! Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich Subject(s): Russia LAPLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As ere from lieule-oaive's vapory head Last Line: Dance sportively. Subject(s): Lapland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LAPLAND, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not such the sons of lapland: wisely they Last Line: By small degrees extends the swelling curve! Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Lapland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LAST PICTURE, by KURT DRAWERT Poem Source First Line: Now they sing in the western Last Line: And explains what the texts leave out. Thank you Subject(s): Russia LENIN, by MACKNIGHT BLACK Poem Source First Line: Shadow plodding over fields Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia LENIN, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was he? Leader of the world Last Line: Are a guiding light forever lit. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LENIN, by B. Z. NIDITCH Poem Source First Line: Bury the night %that's all Last Line: Now lenin, %sleep Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia LENIN IN WINTER, by ERNST JANDL Poem Source First Line: The revolution Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia LENIN TO HIS MISTRESS, INESSA ARMAND, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: Dearest: today again %I reviewed nechaev's (I could kneel do Last Line: I know you will forgive me. %yours, vladimir ilich Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia LENIN'S TYPEWRITER, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: Sparrows and pigeons. No squirrels. Crows. A tank Last Line: A typewriter %or a tank Subject(s): Russia LENIN, SELECTION, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Text First Line: So I came down the steps to lenin Last Line: When they carried him down to the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to my hame-toun, as kenspeckle as tears Last Line: The lee-lang nicht I wait for my welcome guests %ruggin at the chained sneck o the door Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; Scottish Translations LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come back to my city. These are my own old tears Last Line: And I will wait till morning for guests that I love, %and rattle the door in its chains Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have returned to my city, known to me like tears Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Famed city, - hearing how thy stately grace Last Line: Where every prospect pleases . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; Leningrad; Petrograd LENINGRAD NOW: GLASNOST, by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: From his cab or from his dacha Last Line: In the dzhinzy! Backsheesh, please! %do come back and don't be sheepish! Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD ROMANCE, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS Poem Source First Line: Not far from the estuary's grey window Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD: 1943, by VERA INBER Poem Source First Line: From day to day Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; World War Ii LETTERS TO YESENIN: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would surely be known for years after as the day I shot Last Line: Be trailed, got in my car and drove to new york nonstop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of those little five-dollar-a-week rooms smelling thick of Last Line: Blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today we've moved back to the granary again and I've anointed Last Line: Could be made a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 1; TO D.G., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This matted and glossy photo of yesenin Last Line: Years before the articulate noose. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Memory; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 28; TO ROBERT DUNCAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O to use the word winged as in bird or victory or airplane for Last Line: Flapped your arms madly, unwinged but craving a little flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to feel exalted so I picked up Last Line: Stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Martyrs; Regret; Russia; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 5, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lustra. Officially the cold comes from manitoba Last Line: With endless thirst. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Wine; Soviet Union; Russians LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit nurtured in democracy Last Line: Or murder with his silent bloody feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Terrorism; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians LURID LIVES: RASPUTIN (TO HIS BAND OF COURT LADIES & OTHER SATELLITES), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Build an altar in my chamber Last Line: With a holy pleasure. Subject(s): God; Rasputin, Grigory (1872-1916); Religion; Russia; Theology; Soviet Union; Russians MADAME BLAVATSKY IN NEW YORK, 1875-77, by DIANE BONDS Poem Source First Line: A great russian bear' shambling Last Line: Cretins' she had cast aside, both still %living somewhere in russia... Subject(s): Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); New York City; Russia; Theosophy MAKING DO, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: Two concrete blocks and a cardboard box Last Line: Be as bad as you think. It will be worse %than you can imagine Subject(s): Russia MARY MAGDALENE (1), by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as night descends, we meet Last Line: And, fainting, all my being sways %towards thee, thy burial preparing Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era MICE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the mice that scare the lions Last Line: Gnawing away the thrones. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Mice; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Socialism; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941 MOSCOW, by KARL THEODORE KORNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How thy church domes swell yonder, amply rounded! Last Line: And conquering st. George his lance hath shaken! Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians MOSCOW, by CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spires of moscow glittering from afar Last Line: Point their red spires, and sail along the sky. Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians MOSCOW BELLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text 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 MOUNDS OF HUMAN HEADS ARE WANDERING INTO THE DISTANCE, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From the dead to say the sun is shining Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN HISTORY, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: The tour guide speaks in rapid russian Last Line: There's more, of course, our guide assures us, but it %is not for foreigners Subject(s): Russia MY COUNTRY, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patriot I am, but in so strange a fashion Last Line: The heart to hear their talk, these tipsy lads! Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians MY COUNTRY, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my country, but that love is odd Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Russia NAPOLEON, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: He boasted vauntingly of world-wide power Last Line: Were crushed by little sifting flakes of snow. Subject(s): Napoleon I - Invasion Of Russia NATIVE LAND, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sob, fiery element Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Russia NATIVE LAND, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my native land with such perverse affection! Last Line: The dance, the stamps and whistles blending %with mumbling rustics full of beer Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Russia NEARING CHERNOBYL, by KATHERINE E. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Outside a village we stop by the road Last Line: In a ukrainian forest. I carry the dust %of the universe on my shoes Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Russia NO ONE KNEW, by YEFIM ALEXEYEVICH PRIDVOROV Poem Source First Line: It was a day like any other Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN Poem Text First Line: Fall on your face Last Line: Hosannah in the highest! Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians NOTEBOOK: URBAN DESERT, SELS., by BELLA DIZHUR Subject(s): Russia NOUMENON, by CASSIA BERMAN Poem Source First Line: It would snow so much in russia, my uncle told me, that the roads Last Line: The answers to their questions Subject(s): Memory; Russia; Snow; Winter NOVEMBER 7: ODE TO A DAY OF VICTORIES, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This double anniversary, this day, this night Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Russia; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) O LORD, HELP ME TO LIVE THROUGH THIS NIGHT, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To live in petersburgh is to sleep in a grave Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of time Last Line: God's image, sister of the seraphim. Subject(s): Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia; Holidays; New Year; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ODE TO THE WARRIORS OF THE DON, by N. M. SHATROFF Poem Source First Line: Sudden o'er moscow rolls the dread thunder Alternate Author Name(s): Shatrov, N. M. Subject(s): Don, River (russia) ODESSA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreaming and looking seaward Last Line: That makes the fate his prey! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Odessa, Ukraine; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians OFFERING: FOR MARINA TSVETAYEVA, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through yellow fingers smoke rises about you Last Line: An unwanted dog? O black icon Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941) OLD MAPS, by KATHERINE E. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The river's the same, curving gentle and infinite from right Last Line: Blowing the seasons right out of town Subject(s): Rivers; Russia ON BERIA'S LAP, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Svetlana, are you grieving Last Line: It is a century you mourn for Subject(s): Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Russia - Stalin Era; Women's Rights ON THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER, EMPEROR OF THE RUSSIAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Napoleon died upon helena's rock Last Line: That wraps his relics round, o! These are worth them all. Subject(s): Alexander I, Czar Of Russia (1777-1825) ON THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What murmurs are these that so wofully rise Last Line: Who rules -- heaven help them! Those realms of the czar! Subject(s): Jews - Persecution; Russia - Pogroms ON THE RUSSIAN PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, by lying tongues adored Last Line: In death's worst hour the works of christian men? Variant Title(s): On The Russian Persecution Of Jews Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians ON THE RUSSIAN WAR IN THE CRIMEA: 1854-55, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold with awe, and high adoring wonder Last Line: Britannia wars to loose, not bind the chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Europe; Russia; War; Soviet Union; Russians OVER THE STEPPE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Heard you that horseman? How madly he rides! Last Line: And lo! 'twas the wind and the moonbeam no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians OVID IN PONTUS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the banished euxine (a black doom!) Last Line: Have sought to find it on that desert beach. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Black Sea; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians OWED' TO MY POCKET-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "how fair thou art, o little book" Last Line: Will carry all my money Subject(s): Books;money;russia; Reading;soviet Union;russians OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's characteristic of a russian novelist to reveal some lack Last Line: "might correspond to what you Subject(s): Russia; Novels & Novelists; Soviet Union; Russians OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 80, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two rams, which ram redeemed Last Line: We will believe everything we say Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians PASSAGE OF THE BERESINA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On with the cohorts, on! -- a darkening cloud Last Line: Is better passport at the gate of heaven. Subject(s): Beresina River (russia); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians PAST ONE O'CLOCK. YOU MUST HAVE GONE TO BED, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In hours like these, one rises to address %the ages, history, and all creation Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Quarrels; Russia - Stalin Era PETRORAD, 1919, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And confined to this savage capital Last Line: But the holy city of peter %will be our unintended monument Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia PLATZPOEM: KGB BAR, by ALICIA RABINS Poem Source First Line: Soviet mirror, mirror of beer Last Line: Light that is the words written after the book has been shattered Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Russia POEM FOR A FAR LAND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Russia, most feminine of lands Last Line: Between what was and that which is Subject(s): Russia POEM NO. 286 (ON STALIN), by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We live, not feeling the ground under our feet Last Line: Whenever he's got a victim, he glows like a broachested %georgian munching a raspberry Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) POETRY AND SORROW IN A 'RIGHT-TO-SING' STATE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music strikes / back, but doesn't walk off the job Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POLAND, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, beneath the tower whence issue forth Last Line: And humbly seeks for succor ere she dies! Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever be the meaning of that creed Last Line: By the son's act, the father's late remorse? Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers POSSIBLE RESULTS OF FRIENDS' MISSION TO ST. PETERSBURG (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prove his own love of peace and sanction theirs Last Line: Day after day, the balance of his soul. Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Friends, Religious Society Of; Peace; Quakers POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To build a window on the east' Last Line: Some couples twist in our hotel Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; Leningrad; Petrograd POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To build a window on the east' Last Line: Some couples twist in our hotel Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia PRAY FOR POLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, not unwept, unsung thy wrongs have been Last Line: Who reigns, and rules, and lives for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Poland; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians PRAYER, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me bitter years of sickness Last Line: So that the stormcloud over darkened russia %might become a cloud of glorious rays Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia PRINCE EMILIUS OF HESSE-DARMSTADT, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hesse-darmstadt every step to moskwa's blazing banks Last Line: These are the holy balsam-drops that woeful wars distil. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Moskva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians PROGRESS, by GEORGE ROBERT ACWORTH CONQUEST Poem Source First Line: There was a great marxist called lenin Last Line: That grand old marxist stalin did ten in Subject(s): Communism; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blacken thy heavens, jove Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cover thy spacious heavens, zeus Last Line: As I! Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROMETHEUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One after one the stars have risen and set Last Line: And patience, which at last shall overcome. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians PROTOKOL, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: I'm sitting in the police station, telling Last Line: But it's a good story %zoshchenko would have liked it Subject(s): Russia PULTOWA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint in his wounds and shivering in the blast Last Line: And charles beheld, -- nor shuddered at the sight. Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians READING THE RUSSIANS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course they are gloomy; / they drink a lot of vodka Last Line: Chernobyl, and gogol's nose. Subject(s): Books; Russia; Translating & Interpreting; Reading; Soviet Union; Russians REINDEER RIDER IN AN OLD RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPH, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: The reindeer rider could only speak Last Line: As an oak is full of oak-wood Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Reindeer; Russia REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came and took you away Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it was not under a strange sky Last Line: And then a sort of smile slid across what had been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, not under a foreign heavenly-cope Last Line: There where, unhappily, my people were Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it wasn't under a foreign heaven Last Line: I was there among my countrymen, %I was where my people, unfortunately, were Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They took you away at daybreak Last Line: And howl under the towers of the kremlin Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 1., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They took you away at daybreak. Last Line: Crawl to the kremlin towers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic choirs the unequalled hour exalted Last Line: No one as much as dared to look that way Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels hymned the hour Last Line: Upon the mother, standing silent Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels glorified the hour Last Line: His mother stood apart. No other looked %into her secret eyes. Nobody dared Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Russia - Stalin Era; Women - Bible REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No foreign sky protected me Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 1935-1940, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No foreign sky protected me Last Line: Survivor of that ime, that place Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quietly flows the qiuet don Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silent don flows silently Last Line: Say one prayer for me Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quietly flows the qiuet don Last Line: With husband dead, with son away %in jail. Pray for me. Pray Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 2., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently flows the gentle don Last Line: Son in irons and husband clay. %pray. Pray Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, this is not I Last Line: The lanterns ... %night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, this isn't me, someone else suffers Last Line: They should wrap up in black covers, %the streetlights should be taken away... Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound Last Line: Whisk the lamps away Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 3., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it is not I, it is someone else who is suffering Last Line: And take away the lanterns %night Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you - mocker Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could have seen, mocker Last Line: Innocent lives end Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you, girl of the clever hello Last Line: There's not a sound to be heard-but how many %innocent lives are coming to an end... Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you, little scoffer Last Line: Innocent lives will be taken Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They should have shown you - mocker Last Line: No sound. No sound. Yet how many %innocent lives are ending Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 4., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone should have shown you -- little jester Last Line: Tongue's in its cheek as it's swaying Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I have cried aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I cried Last Line: One huge star Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I've called you Last Line: Still tightening vice Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For months I've filled the air with pleas Last Line: A gigantic star, threatening me %with death when a day or two have passed Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 5, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen months I have cried aloud Last Line: Stares me straight in the eyes, %promising death, ah soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weeks fly out of mind Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light weeks fly Last Line: Of your high cross, and of death Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly the weeks are flying Last Line: And of death I hear them speak Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 6, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weeks fly out of mind Last Line: On what the high cross shows, %this body of your death Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word dropped like a stone Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the word fell as a rock Last Line: This translucent day, and the emptied house Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then fell the word of stone on Last Line: This radiant day, and this empty house Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 7. THE SENTENCE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word dropped like a stone Last Line: How long have I foreseen %this brilliant day, this empty house? Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case - so why not now? Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you come anyway, why not now? Last Line: Is covered by the final terror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case, so why not now Last Line: I love are closing on the final horror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 8. TO DEATH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will come in any case - so why not now? Last Line: And the blue lustre of my loved one's eyes %is clouded over by the final horror Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness lifts its wing Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness with her wind Last Line: Of the last words of consolation Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness lifts its wing Last Line: Not the thin cricket-sound %of consolation's parting word Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: 9., by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already madness trails its wing Last Line: His parting words of consolation Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such grief might make the mountains stoop Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before this grief, mountains must bend down Last Line: I send [or, sent] them this goodbye and wish them well Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such grief might make the mountains stoop Last Line: To them I cry, hail and farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: DEDICATION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faced with this grief, mountains sink down Last Line: What phantoms do they see in the lunar circle? %it's to them I am sending this farewell Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned how faces fall to bone Last Line: And a prison dove coo somewhere, over and over, %as the ships sail softly down the flowing neva Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE (1), by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found out how faces wilt Last Line: Under the red unseeing wall Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE (2), by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day of remembering comes again Last Line: And the boats of the neva go by in silence Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE - I, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There I learned how faces fall apart Last Line: Under that red blind prison-wall Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Women REQUIEM: EPILOGUE - II, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the hands of the clock are nearing Last Line: And the ships sail slowly down the neva Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen how a face can fall like a leaf Last Line: In the bitter cold, on a hot july day %under the red wall that stared blindly Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: EPILOGUE 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the memorial hour's drawing near Last Line: And let in the distance the prison pigeons coo, %while along the neva, ships pass quietly through Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A FOREWORD, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of the yezhov period I spent seventeen months Last Line: Then something like a smile passed over what had once been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A PREFACE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of yezhovism I spent seventeen months standing in Last Line: And then a sort of smile slid across what had been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A PREFACE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the awful years of yezhovian horror, I spent sev- Last Line: And I said: %-I can. %then something like a fleeting smile passed over what %once had been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INSTEAD OF A PREFACE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the terrible years of the yezhov terror I spent seventeen months Last Line: Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INTRODUCTION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was a time, when only the dead Last Line: And the tires of the black maria Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: INTRODUCTION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This happened when only the dead wore smiles- Last Line: Writhed under boots, all blood-bespattered, %and te wheels of many a black maria Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Dead, The; Leningrad; Petrograd REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those years only the dead smiled Last Line: Under the tyres of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Last Line: Under the crunch of bloodstained boots, %under the wheels of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era RIVER OF MEMORIES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: Where the blue waters of the neva Last Line: Hark to the water's broken song. Subject(s): Memory; Neva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sons, how many generations Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar. Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians ROSTOV, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER Poem Source First Line: That year they fought in the snow Last Line: And stands staring with a terribly patient look %and says, 'why do you strike me, brother? I am man' Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii RQUIEM: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn they came and took you away Last Line: I'll stand and howl under the kremlin towers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era RUSSIA, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sudden voice peals to the caucasus Subject(s): World War - Russia RUSSIA, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To sin, unshamed, to lose, unthinking Last Line: Are you, my russia, even so. Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wail, element tossed by the tempest Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Russia RUSSIA, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: Tramp, tramp, tramp Last Line: Of plodding feet. Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the dauntless spirit Last Line: And the despot's rule shall die. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Russia; Tyranny & Tyrants; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIA - AMERICA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind in the world! The dark departs Last Line: With brightened wings, and smiles and beckons home! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Russia; World War I - United States RUSSIA AND THE JEWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o muscovite, blind is your wrath, with" Last Line: Yet the hebrew abides and is strong Subject(s): Jews;persecution;russia; Judaism;soviet Union;russians RUSSIA: 1918, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last! Last Line: A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Revolutions; Russia; Russian Revolution; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIAN ART SHOP, by LOUISE HOVDE MORTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Here's jewelry from russia Last Line: For every woman's glance. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians RUSSIAN EMIGRE, by DIANE S. MEHTA Poem Source First Line: The diction of pogroms is the bitter root Last Line: Ensembles, determined to be contemporary Subject(s): Russia - Pogroms RUSSIANS ICE DANCING TO THE BLUES, by PAUL HAMANN Poem Source First Line: What was she thinking %with that dancer's smile Last Line: Her arms to the music %like a deranged flamingo Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Ice; Russia SAINT PETERSBURG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Thou bright moon, batyushka!" Last Line: "having become orphans, we have lost all strength" Subject(s): "russia;saint Petersburg, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians;leningrad;petrograd SAINT PETERSBURG, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See! From the finland marshes there Last Line: Beams all the dusky distance through! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd SEVASTOPOL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dead is a syrian sky Last Line: "and sighs above them, ""alas for glory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The English Cemetery At Sevastopol Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians SHARD OF HISTORY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could it be that I am the one Last Line: False dmitri my crimes de-%serve the final punishment Subject(s): Russia SIBERIA, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In siberia's wastes / the ice-wind's breath Last Line: His last breath was drawn. Subject(s): Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians SIBERIA, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thence winding eastward to the tartar's coast Last Line: Through all this dreary labyrinth of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians SIR SAVA AND THE LESCHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: With the lord at nemirov Last Line: The young wife of sir sava / by him a window stood Subject(s): Mythology - Russian;russia; Soviet Union;russians SLAVONIA. PART I, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near moskva's stream, through heath and forest gliding Last Line: Soft coo the billing doves, and then repose. Variant Title(s): A Country Church Subject(s): Moskva (river), Russia SOFIE JAKOBOWSKI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little sofie jakobowski Last Line: Yohn and ole petersen. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians SOLDIER'S TALE, by ALEKSEY [ALEXSEI] NEDOGONOV Poem Text First Line: Two immortalities has the volga Last Line: Source and mouth are they. Subject(s): Soldiers; Volga River, Russia SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At saratoff and tzaritozine Last Line: "the mercy dance, the joyous song" Subject(s): "russia;volga River, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians SONG OF THE GOOD TZAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Russia had a noble tzar Last Line: "tell me, have ye ever found / such a prince the world around?" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "across the don a plank lay, thin and bending" Last Line: "they cannot hear my voice, / they cannot see my burning tears" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 10, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "burr me, brothers, between three roads" Last Line: "a son of the brigand, the bold stenka razin!" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 11, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dark mountain has grown black Last Line: There went up voices to the heavens Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 12, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "shower, shower!" Last Line: Warm us young ones Subject(s): Rain;russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 13, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the house of my own father Last Line: "I shall have to dry you, o ruddy tresses, / in the longing of my grief" Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "go down, o ruddy sun!" Last Line: Away from him my life is sad Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'why, o dove, art thou so joyless?'" Last Line: Wounded her with a weapon of gold Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "misty is the sunlight, misty" Last Line: And coffin boards my bosom white conceal Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o winds, warm winds" Last Line: And let me for the last of times / to my beloved one say farewell Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If god would grant my love his health Last Line: "that we two loved each other tenderly, / and loyally, my love, together died" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from under the stone, the white stone" Last Line: "awake, awake, o maiden fair, / o maiden fair, my olden love!" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whither shall I, the fair maiden, flee from sorrow?" Last Line: "I have driven, I have driven, the maiden into the damp earth" Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 8, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oak wood, dear oak wood" Last Line: "he has lured her, - and now / fain would fling her aside" Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 9, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah! On the hill a pine-tree stands! Last Line: His death! Dear lord! Beneath the pine Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union;russians SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 38. THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: At last against the conquerors of the world Last Line: Save black heaven,and the interminable snow. Subject(s): Napoleon I - Invasion Of Russia SONS OF OUR SONS, by ILYA GRIGORYEVICH EHRENBURG Poem Source Subject(s): Death; Russia; Scholarship And Scholars SONS OF OUR SONS, by ILYA GRIGORYEVICH EHRENBURG Poem Source First Line: The sons of our sons will wonder Subject(s): Russia; Scholarship And Scholars SORRY HAMLETS, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Russia ST. ISAAC'S CHURCH, PETROGRAD, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow down my soul in worship very low Last Line: Of man's divinity alive in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Variant Title(s): Russian Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Cathedrals; Leningrad; Petrograd STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them Last Line: He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries. %he wishes he could hug them like big friends fr Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 3. THE RIGHT TO KILL (MOSCOW, 1913), by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: X and asterisk: shorthand all night flowing Last Line: Of counter-revolutionary nature? And the blue hand shakes Subject(s): Books; Mandelstam, Osip (1892-1941); Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 5. RITUAL MURDER AMONG THE JEWS, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not wait until we force you: we will have the final say Last Line: The verdict is final, the case is closed Subject(s): Books; Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STANZAS, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sagittarius moon. Beyond the moscow river. Night Last Line: And the pretender's arrogance - instead of the people's rights Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era STAR WHISPER, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS Poem Source First Line: If you dare breathe out in verkhoyansk Last Line: Conclusions about whether you're alive %if so, what for Subject(s): Russia STIGMATA, by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose the flying hands, about me shedding Last Line: On the pierced palms of these outstretched hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerienko-voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich; Voloshin, Ma Subject(s): Russia; Spirituality; Soviet Union; Russians STUDYING RUSSIAN ON COMPANY TIME, by CLEMENS STARCK Poem Source First Line: Act like you're reading the sports page Last Line: Not even your comrades %will understand Subject(s): Russia SUKHANOVO, by NATALYA GORBANYEVSKAYA Poem Source First Line: Leafless buoyancy %of bare groves in april Last Line: And deafness fills the throat, a bitter taste the eyes Subject(s): Russia SUNSET IN MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the splendor of the city Last Line: Chill the wind of midnight blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Moscow At Evening Subject(s): Evening; Moscow; Russia; Sunset; Twilight; Soviet Union; Russians SUPPOSE I MAKE A TIMEPIECE OF HUMANITY, by VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH KHLEBNIKOV Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On a door, and behind it someone is dying Alternate Author Name(s): Vladimirovich, Viktor Subject(s): Russia SYMPHONY NO. 2, by DANIIL IUVACHEV Poem Source First Line: Anton mikhailovich spat, said 'ugh,' spat again Last Line: Once I went to see marina petrovna, and bang! She lost all her hair. That was all Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii; Soviet Union; Russians; Second World War TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over america last sunday afternoon goes your symphony no. 7 Last Line: Contribution to the meanings of human freedom and discipline Subject(s): Russia; World War Ii TALE OF ST. PETERSBURG: INTRODUCTION, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a shore washed by desolate waves, he stood Last Line: And let them not disturb with empty spite %peter's eternal sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Peter I, Czar Of Russia (1672-1725) THE ARGO NEARING COLCHIS, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, with the wind behind them, and the oars Last Line: By many another farther and more near. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE BALLAD OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CZAR, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the czar Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Children; Ancestors & Ancestry; Immigrants; Childhood; Heritage; Heredity; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE BATTLE OF PULTOWA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vorska's glittering waves Last Line: Now, patkul, may thine injured spirit rest! Subject(s): Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Russia; Pultowa, Battle Of (179); Soviet Union; Russians THE BATTLE-FIELD OF RASZYN, by KAZIMIERZ BRODZINSKI Poem Text First Line: A balmy air is up, the night is still Last Line: Clamoring for vengeance? Ah! We hear ye not. Alternate Author Name(s): Brodsinski, Casimir Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave Last Line: And dolphins gambol in the lion's den! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Half a league, half a league, / half a league onward Last Line: Noble six hundred! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Cavalry; Courage; Crimean War (1853-1856); Duty; Heroism; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Russia; Soldiers; War; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Soviet Union; Russians THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the frozen marshes Last Line: "is the brother of the finn!" Subject(s): Finland; 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 CRIMEAN TARTARS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still the tartar loves the shores Last Line: "allah requite us in paradise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Yalta And The Crimean Tartars Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CROWN JEWELS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eye of a god was this blazing stone Last Line: In the fairy plots of a palace garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Crowns; Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd THE CZAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now who is he with lofty mien Last Line: The czar! God save the czar! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Honor; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE CZAR PASSES, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: One july noon when I was twelve Last Line: After the czar had passed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Russia; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Soviet Union; Russians THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk Last Line: And I am nicholas. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War THE CZAR'S OPPORTUNITY; THE SUNDAY MASSACRE, ST. PETERSBURGH, 1905, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He heard his loyal people cry Last Line: Marches the bloody way. Subject(s): Massacres; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918) THE DEAD CZAR, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A storm burst forth! From out the storm Last Line: But god still guides his star. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881) THE DEAD CZAR NICHOLAS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay him beneath his snows Last Line: "cast the first stone." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Nicholas I, Czar Of Russia (1796-1855) THE DEAD EMPEROR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, columbia Last Line: Mourning a good old man -- a faithful shepherd, patriot. Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881) THE DEATH OF LENIN, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's time that I began Last Line: The prison-cells of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DIAMOND PERSONA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians THE DIVISION OF POLAND, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon earth's lap there lay a pleasant land Last Line: "and cry exulting, ""yea, there is a god!" Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DNIEPER, by ? JAROSLATEZ Poem Text First Line: When the tired sun turneth sleeper Last Line: On other heads than mine! Subject(s): Dnieper River, Russia; Russia; Dnept River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem. Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women THE DWINA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "stony-browed dwina, thy face is as flint!" Last Line: "'neath the dead, silent river, so rigid and still" Subject(s): "dwina, River (russia);russia;" Soviet Union;russians THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen (lucky me!) what you all want to see Last Line: With huzza for the great alexander! Subject(s): Alexander I, Czar Of Russia (1777-1825); Singing & Singers THE FAIR OF NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, by the tower of babel Last Line: Was ever such a crowd? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Festivals; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Fairs; Pageants; Soviet Union; Russians THE FATHER OF THE REGIMENT, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick snow-wreaths weighed upon the furs Last Line: From russian sword and ball. Subject(s): Dnieper River, Russia; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Dnept River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE FEAST OF PETER THE GREAT, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the neva gayly dancing Last Line: All the neva from afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Peter I, Czar Of Russia (1672-1725); Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Peter The Great; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Magnificence of ruin! What has time Last Line: Must fly, toil, bleed for home; yet never see that home. Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE FRENCH ARMY IN RUSSIA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humanity, delighting to behold Last Line: A soundless waste, a trackless vacancy! Subject(s): Army - France; Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In eldest times, when kings and hardy chiefs Last Line: Of pipes unnumbered, for the ram regained. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE GOLDEN FLEECE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But jason, going swiftly with good heart Last Line: That loudly clanged his armor therewithal. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE GYPSY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay! Tell us not of curtained walls! Last Line: Follow our bidding, foul or fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Fortune Tellers; Gypsies; Russia; Palmistry; Gipsies; Soviet Union; Russians THE INVASION OF THE TARTARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "plundering are the tartars, / plundering jashdow castle" Last Line: "a slave for life to be, / far, far in tartary!" Subject(s): "jashdow Castle, Poland;russia;tatars;" Soviet Union;russians;tartars THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE JEWISH SOLDIER (2), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the walls of plevna, not fifty yards away Last Line: And on gatschina's palace forevermore they lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD DOYLE Poem Text First Line: From town and village to a wood, stript bare Last Line: "till they draw lightning from jehovah's eyes." Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE KING'S JEWEL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a night to make the bravest Last Line: "and he hath delivered thee!" Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Soviet Union; Russians THE KISHINEFF MASSACRE, by ROSE STRAUSS Poem Text First Line: O lord, thy righteous wrath and vengeance pour Last Line: Will not be deaf, but with thy thunder smite. Subject(s): Jews; Massacres; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE LAST TEN OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT, by JULIUS MOSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand soldiers knelt in warsaw's square Last Line: "in 'poland's fourth' we are the only ten." Subject(s): Army - Poland; Russia; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians THE MARCH TO MOSCOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor nap he would set off Last Line: As there was on the road from moscow. Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians THE NEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk, as in a dream Last Line: Between his isles: he keeps his secret well. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Neva (river), Russia; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE PALACE OF AEETES, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these thoughts, between the fair streets led Last Line: Upon the polished edges of the stream. Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Golden Fleece (mythology); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE PALACE OF OMARTES, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Omartes, king of the wide plains Last Line: Shivered, and, parting, round him wrapt his mantle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE POWER OF RUSSIA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So all this gallant blood has gushe'd in vain Last Line: Our setting star is your misfortunes' rising morn.' Subject(s): Freedom; Russia; Liberty; Soviet Union; Russians THE PRINCE AND THE CZAR, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prince and the czar ride into the streets Last Line: Let the wild wars cease and the nations rest!' Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Freedom; History; Leadership; London; Liberty; Historians THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow snow-fog curdled thick Last Line: The carriage disappeared. Subject(s): Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Warsaw, Poland; Soviet Union; Russians THE RIVER DON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "father of ours! Famous, quiet don!" Last Line: Deprived of them my shoals are thick with sand Subject(s): "don, River (russia);russia;" Soviet Union;russians THE RIVER DON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O placid don! I see thee flow Last Line: With cross above, thy waters by. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Don, River (russia); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go backmy girl is american born. Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the ethnic riots start, and the civilized west Last Line: With an unhappy man Subject(s): Russia – Army; War; Freedom; Cold War THE RUSSIAN EXILE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But what is this? Our infant winter sinks Last Line: Hardens his heart against assailing want. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Exiles; Russia; Siberia; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUSSIAN JEWISH RABBI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "old and gray, his shoulders bent" Last Line: In your heart a deathly moan Subject(s): Clergy;jews;russia;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism;soviet Union;russians;sunday THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The people, the russian people Last Line: Lost in the dawn at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Patriotism; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE RUSSIAN STUDENT'S TALE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight sun with phantom glare Last Line: The last sob of a nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Russia; Schools; Soviet Union; Russians; Students THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How salt the tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians THE SHRINES OF MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above each gate a blessed saint Last Line: They are the stars, and she the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Kremlin, Moscow; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE SIEGE OF DJKXPRWBZ, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before a turkish town Last Line: Consonant they had. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Russia; Turkey; War; Soviet Union; Russians THE SIEGE OF KAZAN; TARTAR SONG, by ALEXANDER BOREJKO CHODZKO Poem Text First Line: Black are the moors before kazan Last Line: Ah! Was ever a grief like this? Subject(s): Kazan, Russia; Tatars; Tartars THE SKELETON OF THE FUTURE; AT LENIN'S TOMB, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red granite and black diorite, with the blue Last Line: The eternal lightning of lenin's bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Graves; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Tombs; Tombstones; 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 THE SOVIET, by LOUISE WINDSOR Poem Text First Line: They say the state is all Last Line: The state, their all in all. Subject(s): Communism; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pitched tents on the grounds of lenin's park Last Line: Of those russian elephants, the lost rumbling of a man, his son Subject(s): Circus; Cuba; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE STALIN EPIGRAM, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives no longer feel ground under them Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) THE STORMING OF AZOF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The poor soldiers have no rest Last Line: No! In the rills and rivers and streams / turkish blood so red! Subject(s): "azof, Russia;russia;" Soviet Union;russians THE TIGER, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath odessa's foreland Last Line: Shall bring him better rest. Subject(s): Odessa, Ukraine; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE TRUMPETS OF DOOLKARNEIN, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With awful walls, for glooming, that possessed Last Line: But heaven and earth abide their time, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians THE VOLGA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And still we kept the volga's tide Last Line: On either side was the grassy sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The Lower Volga Subject(s): Russia; Volga River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE WHITE CZAR (PETER THE GREAT), by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou see on the rampart's height Last Line: "batyushka! Gosudar!" Subject(s): Peter I, Czar Of Russia (1672-1725); Russia; Peter The Great; Soviet Union; Russians THESE DAYS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Text First Line: In the mausoleum lies the corpse of a man who rode Subject(s): Change; Death; Russia; Time; Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians THIS IS NEITHER OLD NOR NEW, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From libava to vladivostok %the never-ending anatema rings out Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia THIS RUSSIAN SOIL, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lockets for a charm we do not wear it Last Line: To receive and embrace us and turn us to clay. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THROUGH KIEV, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through kiev, through the streets of the monster Last Line: Don't worry, we'll be back!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Kiev, Ukraine; Russia - Army-military Life THROUGH REASON RUSSIA CAN'T BE KNOWN, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She has a nature all her own - %have faith in her, all else will fail you Subject(s): Russia TO MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the steppe we journeyed Last Line: The jewel of the czars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians TO RUSSIA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who tamed your lawless tartar blood? Last Line: Your jew! Your jew! Your hated jew! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians TO RUSSIA NEW AND FREE (INSCRIBED TO MADAME BRESHKOVSKAYA), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the martyrs - of the martyred dead Last Line: And hear thy chanted hymns of hope for russia new and free. Subject(s): Russian Revolution; World War I - Russia TO THE ARMY OF THE DON, by N. M. SHATROFF Poem Text First Line: Moskva is stunned with the thunder-storm's rattle Last Line: Strong in the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Shatrov, N. M. Subject(s): Army - Russia; Don, River (russia); Russia; Soviet Union; Russians TO THE MEN OF THE SOVIET ARMY, by H. BINGA DISMOND Poem Source First Line: Mother, what's a red? Subject(s): Russia TROITSA MONASTERY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred troitsa! When the skies Last Line: For the lord of the saints is here as there! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Monasteries; Russia; Troitzka, Russia; Abbeys; Soviet Union; Russians; Troitsa, Russia TRY TO COVER YOUR SHIVERING SHOULDERS, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Last Line: You just feel slightly sick, %as you enter the stain the wall Subject(s): Russia TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Words; Vocabulary; Leningrad; Petrograd TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Last Line: Is not yet fallen off Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia UNIVERSAL PEACE, by MARGARET FRATER HILL Poem Text First Line: The angels sang of peace, to men good will Last Line: To break war's chains that still our world do bind. Subject(s): Peace; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians UNTO THE END, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Heroic words, like a trumpet's blast Last Line: Endure unto the end. Subject(s): Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Russia; Soldiers; World War I; Soviet Union; Russians; First World War UTVINSK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the famous river utva Last Line: That field was moistened / with burning cossack tears Subject(s): "russia;utvinsk, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians VERSES ON THE OCCASION OF BANQUET BY EDINBURGH TO NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God protect brave alexander Last Line: And in battle side by side. Subject(s): Nicholas I, Czar Of Russia (1796-1855) VLA-DI-MIR NA-BO-KOV, by MICHAEL KRUGER Poem Source First Line: He is one who always comes back Last Line: Doomed to die before evening falls Subject(s): Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977); Russia VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN THE RUSSIAN WHEATFIELDS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was in the wheatfields, in the laughter of man Last Line: One day my sight was populated by tombs, %and I, tomb among them, am still planting Subject(s): Politics; Russia VOLGA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Age is in their wasted features Last Line: What the master, jesus, said. Subject(s): Russia; Volga River, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians WELCOME TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadowed so long by the storm-cloud of danger Last Line: Strength to her people! Long life to the czar! Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians WHEN JOE DREW RUSSIA AS A CLASS ASSIGNMENT, by DAVID HEDGES Poem Source First Line: The rules were simple enough: draw the name Last Line: Away that day, and all the contraband Subject(s): Russia; Schools 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 WHITE LOW SUN, A LOW THUNDERCLOUDS; AND BACK, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's soldiers who sing these days. O lord god Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era WITH THE RABBLE IN A DITCH, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But now I remain %all by myself, alone Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era YARILA, by SERGEI GORODETSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First to sharpen the ax-flint they bent Last Line: A new god. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Russian; Poetry & Poets; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians YOU ARE NO LONGER AMONG THE LIVING, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The russian earth loves, loves %droplets of blood Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia YOU REMEMBER, ALYOSHA, THE ROADS OF SMOLENSK PROVINCE, by KONSTANTIN SIMENOV Poem Source Last Line: And proud that russian women farewelled us rpudly %with threefold kisses, in the russian way Subject(s): Russia; Women; World War Ii YOU'LL DRINK YOU'RE ORANGE JUICE AND LIKE IT, COMRADE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a cyprus citrus surplus Last Line: Now on cyprus they're all reading %victory, by joseph comrade Subject(s): Communism; Cyprus; Russia YOU, WALKING PAST ME, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How much dark and menacing need! Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era ZNAMENSKAYA SQUARE, LENINGRAD, 1941, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The older girl pulls the child's Subject(s): Saint Oetersburg, Russia; World War Ii; Children - Death; Second World War |
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