Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO RUSSIA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER 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 | ||||||||
WHO tamed your lawless Tartar blood? What David bearded in her den The Russian bear in ages when You strode your black, unbridled stud, A skin-clad savage of your steppes? Why, one who now sits low and weeps, Why, one who now wails out to you, -- The Jew, the Jew, the homeless Jew. Who girt the thews of your young prime And bound your fierce divided force? Why, who but Moses shaped your course United down the grooves of time? Your mighty millions all to-day The hated, homeless Jew obey. Who taught all poetry to you? The Jew, the Jew, the hated Jew. Who taught you tender Bible tales Of honey-lands, of milk and wine? Of happy, peaceful Palestine? Of Jordan's holy harvest vales? Who gave the patient Christ? I say, Who gave your Christian creed? Yea, yea, Who gave your very God to you? Your Jew! Your Jew! Your hated Jew! | 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 A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER |
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