AND still we kept the Volga's tide, The Volga rolling gray and wide; While the gulls of the Caspian over it flew, A flash of silver and jet in the sun, And, chill though the blast from the Oural blew, Circled and hovered till day was done. Faint, in the lulls of the wind, from shore Came the lowing of herds that roved the plain; And the bells rang over the water's roar Calling the hamlet to holy fane. And slowly the fishers of Astrakhan Stemmed the current with laden keel; While the barges the Kama peasants man, And the barks of the Oka past them ran, Heaped with iron and wheat and steel; And as far as the wind could wander free, On either side was the grassy sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ADELAIDE CRAPSEY by CARL SANDBURG WHAT DO I CARE by SARA TEASDALE THE KING'S THRESHOLD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO A WATERFOWL by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS TO BARON DE STONNE WITH AIKIN'S ESSAYS ON SONG-WRITING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |