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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TCHIREK SONG, by ALTUN First Line: Tchirek river / lies under the dark mountains Last Line: Sheep and oxen roam. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Tatars; Tartars | |||
TCHIREK River Lies under the Dark Mountains: Where the sky is like the sides of a tent Stretched down over the Great Steppe. The sky is gray, gray: And the steppe wide, wide: Over grass that the wind has battered low Sheep and oxen roam. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GRAVE OF HOWARD by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES THE SIEGE OF KAZAN; TARTAR SONG by ALEXANDER BOREJKO CHODZKO POOR TARTAR; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND by JOHN GODFREY SAXE THE INVASION OF THE TARTARS by ANONYMOUS THE TEMPTRESS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SURFACES AND MASKS; 4 by CLARENCE MAJOR THE GREAT HUNT by CARL SANDBURG |
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