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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HOUSE IN ST. PETERSBURG, by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Source First Line: If my mother had never been the protected child Last Line: I would not be singing her song Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to my hame-toun, as kenspeckle as tears Last Line: The lee-lang nicht I wait for my welcome guests %ruggin at the chained sneck o the door Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; Scottish Translations LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've come back to my city. These are my own old tears Last Line: And I will wait till morning for guests that I love, %and rattle the door in its chains Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have returned to my city, known to me like tears Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text 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 LENINGRAD NOW: GLASNOST, by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: From his cab or from his dacha Last Line: In the dzhinzy! Backsheesh, please! %do come back and don't be sheepish! Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD ROMANCE, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS Poem Source First Line: Not far from the estuary's grey window Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia LENINGRAD: 1943, by VERA INBER Poem Source First Line: From day to day Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; World War Ii O LORD, HELP ME TO LIVE THROUGH THIS NIGHT, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To live in petersburgh is to sleep in a grave Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia PETRORAD, 1919, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And confined to this savage capital Last Line: But the holy city of peter %will be our unintended monument Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To build a window on the east' Last Line: Some couples twist in our hotel Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia; Leningrad; Petrograd POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: LENINGRAD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To build a window on the east' Last Line: Some couples twist in our hotel Subject(s): Saint Petersburg, Russia REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Dead, The; Leningrad; Petrograd REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those years only the dead smiled Last Line: Under the tyres of black marias Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia SAINT PETERSBURG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Thou bright moon, batyushka!" Last Line: "having become orphans, we have lost all strength" Subject(s): "russia;saint Petersburg, Russia;" Soviet Union;russians;leningrad;petrograd SAINT PETERSBURG, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See! From the finland marshes there Last Line: Beams all the dusky distance through! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd ST. ISAAC'S CHURCH, PETROGRAD, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow down my soul in worship very low Last Line: Of man's divinity alive in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Variant Title(s): Russian Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Cathedrals; Leningrad; Petrograd THE CROWN JEWELS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eye of a god was this blazing stone Last Line: In the fairy plots of a palace garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Crowns; Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd THE FEAST OF PETER THE GREAT, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the neva gayly dancing Last Line: All the neva from afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Peter I, Czar Of Russia (1672-1725); Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Peter The Great; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Words; Vocabulary; Leningrad; Petrograd TWO ST. PETERSBURGS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue turned Last Line: Is not yet fallen off Subject(s): Language; Saint Petersburg, Florida; Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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