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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SKELETON OF THE FUTURE; AT LENIN'S TOMB, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Recitation Poet Analysis 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 | |||
RED granite and black diorite, with the blue Of the labradorite crystals gleaming like precious stones In the light reflected from the snow: and behind them The eternal lightning of Lenin's bones. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905) by CHARLES REZNIKOFF TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH by CARL SANDBURG READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969 by VIRGIL SUAREZ A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON CATTLE SHOW by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE |
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