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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TCHIREK SONG, by ALTUN First Line: Tchirek river / lies under the dark mountains Last Line: Sheep and oxen roam. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Tatars; Tartars | |||
TCHIREK River Lies under the Dark Mountains: Where the sky is like the sides of a tent Stretched down over the Great Steppe. The sky is gray, gray: And the steppe wide, wide: Over grass that the wind has battered low Sheep and oxen roam. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GRAVE OF HOWARD by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES THE SIEGE OF KAZAN; TARTAR SONG by ALEXANDER BOREJKO CHODZKO POOR TARTAR; A HUNGARIAN LEGEND by JOHN GODFREY SAXE THE INVASION OF THE TARTARS by ANONYMOUS THE ROAD TO AVIGNON by AMY LOWELL FROST AT MIDNIGHT by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE CHIQUITA by FRANCIS BRET HARTE |
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