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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LENINGRAD, by WILLIAM WATSON 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
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
FAMED City, -- hearing how thy stately grace
The imagination seizes,
I feel that thou art eminently a place
Where every prospect pleases . . .
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