Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Saint Petersburg | | Saint Petersburg | | Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) |
| | | SEE! From the Finland marshes there | |
| ’T is proud St. Isaac’s rears in air, | |
| Pillar on pillar, that shining dome! | |
| And, just beyond its glorious swell, | |
| ’T is the slender spire of the Citadel | 5 |
| Where great Czar Peter slumbers well | |
| All by the Neva’s flood and foam,— | |
| That lifts its cross till the golden bars | |
| Gleam and burn with the midnight stars! | |
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| Taller than Luxor’s shafts, and grander, | 10 |
| Looms the pillar of Alexander | |
| Guarding the palace that fronts the square; | |
| And, out where the mist o’er Okhta flies, | |
| The towers of the Nevski Cloister rise,— | |
| Shrine of the saint who, deathless, lies | 15 |
| Circled with silver, and jewels rare; | |
| And Smolnoi’s wealth of spangled blue | |
| Beams all the dusky distance through! | | | | |
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