Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 1, by ANONYMOUS 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 | ||||||||
ACROSS the Don a plank lay, thin and bending; No foot along it passed. But I alone, the young one, from the hill, I went along it with my true-love dear, And to my love I said: "O darling, dear! Beat not thy wife without a cause, But only for good cause beat thou thy wife, And for a great offence. Far away is my father dear, And farther still my mother dear; They cannot hear my voice, They cannot see my burning tears." | 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 TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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