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Subject: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION, by PENTTI SAARIKOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his well-known history, trotsky tells
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


IT HAS THE UNASSUMUNING FACE OF A BURNT-OUT CANDLE, by VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH KHLEBNIKOV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They burned four regions beginning with s
Alternate Author Name(s): Vladimirovich, Viktor
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


OCTOBER, by ANATOLY BORISOVICH MARIENHOF    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We trample filial obedience
Last Line: Emerging madly from the garage?
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


OLD WHITE RUSSIAN, by CH'EN MENG-CHIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glorious days he had, and a chivalrous spirit
Last Line: Makes him cough out again; he calls 'nathasha!'
Subject(s): China - Foreign Population; Old Age; Russian Revolution


REVOLUTION, by FILIP STEPANOVICH SHKULEV    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great is she, born in serfdom
Last Line: She builds for us a new and beautiful world
Subject(s): Freedom; Russian Revolution


RUSSIA: 1918, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last!
Last Line: A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Revolutions; Russia; Russian Revolution; Work; Workers; Soviet Union; Russians


SCYTHIANS, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are millions. But we sweep an endless flood
Last Line: For the last time to joyous brotherhood %the barbarian lute invites
Subject(s): Russian Revolution; War


TAKING OF THE WINTER PALACE, by PERE GIMFERRER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow in blue boots, pushkin's pistol
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


THE CRISIS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of russia, now has come
Last Line: Say to thy land, let there be light.
Subject(s): History; Nations; Russian Revolution; Historians


THE SCYTHIANS, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the millions, we are multitude
Subject(s): Russian Revolution; War


THIS MAN WAS WHITE NOW HE'S BECOME RED, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Death has whitened him
Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TO COMRADE INTELLECTUALS, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How short a while ago you eagerly bent
Last Line: Was it in books alone, made safe in song, %you loved remarkably and shattering things?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Reason; Russian Revolution


TO RUSSIA NEW AND FREE (INSCRIBED TO MADAME BRESHKOVSKAYA), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of the martyrs - of the martyred dead
Last Line: And hear thy chanted hymns of hope for russia new and free.
Subject(s): Russian Revolution; World War I - Russia


TO THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smashing the vice-like blockade
Last Line: Against the morning skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWELVE, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black night %white snow
Last Line: Jesus christ is marching at their head
Subject(s): Freedom; Russian Revolution


TWELVE, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black dusk growing
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWELVE, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black the night. %white the snow
Last Line: With small, white roses garlanded - %jesus the christ walks at their head
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWELVE, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness -- and white
Last Line: Ahead of them christ jesus goes
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWELVE: 10, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Making tracks %marching on
Last Line: Hellhound %on my trail
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWELVE: 11, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey %stop
Last Line: The voices say %don't you start your gospeling now
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWELVE: 12, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moving on %trudging on
Last Line: In front of the blood-drenched flag %walks jesus christ
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 12, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the crowd rushes one way, then another
Last Line: Death sends patrols into every courtyard
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Russian Revolution


WAGE-SLAVES TO WAR-MAKERS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have no land for which to fight
Last Line: It will be you, it will be you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Russian Revolution; Social Protest; War; Work; Workers


YOUNG RUSSIA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A nation struggling for birth
Last Line: Long live russia!
Subject(s): Russian Revolution