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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 back—my 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