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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONG, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a plain girl, whose hands are stained with earth Last Line: And my black braid will serve to strangle me. | |||
I'm a plain girl, whose hands are stained with earth. He is a fisherman—he's gay and keen. The far white sail is drowning in the firth. Many the seas and rivers he has seen. The women of the Bosphorus, they say, Are good-looking ... and I—I'm lean and black. The white sail drowns far out beyond the bay. It may be that he never will come back. I shall wait on in good and evil weather. If vainly, take my wage, go to the sea And cast the ring and hope away together. And my black braid will serve to strangle me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RUSSIAN SPRING by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN THE GOD OF NOON by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN HIGH UP ON A SNOWY PEAK by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN ENDLESS DOWNPOUR by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN IT WAS NEAR MIDNIGHT by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN GRAVE OF RACHEL by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN JANGLING MEMORY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE FOUNTAIN (2) by SARA TEASDALE A POET'S FANCIES: 8. THE MODERN POET; A SONG OF DERIVATIONS by ALICE MEYNELL THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 31. TO ONE WHO LOVED HIM by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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