Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Moscow | | To Moscow | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | ACROSS the steppe we journeyed, | |
| The brown, fir-darkened plain | |
| That rolls to east and rolls to west, | |
| Broad as the billowy main, | |
| When lo! a sudden splendor | 5 |
| Came shimmering through the air, | |
| As if the clouds should melt and leave | |
| The heights of heaven bare,— | |
| A maze of rainbow domes and spires | |
| Full glorious on the sky, | 10 |
| With wafted chimes from many a tower | |
| As the south-wind went by, | |
| And a thousand crosses lightly hung | |
| That shone like morning stars,— | |
| ’T was the Kremlin wall! ’t was Moscow,— | 15 |
| The jewel of the Czars! | | | | |
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