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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RUSSIA: 1918, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR 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 | |||
Oh, hear them! Hear their voices rise at last! Hear them, serene and sure! Again! Again! Oh, hear the voices of the workingmen! The long, long day of servitude is past! They do not crave the right to speak: they speak! The voices of the workingmen are firm, For they have found deliverance and the term; They find the weak grown strong, the strong grown weak. No spoil of conquest by a kingly creed! No shining victors, ravening to feed Upon the shattered vanquished! They are wise Who hear the terms and heed; the fools revise— And are revised; the workingmen have said! A world is born, the kingly creeds are dead! | 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 |
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