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St. Petersburg Poems - Poems about St. Petersburg


September Sunset Over St Petersburg
SEPTEMBER SUNSET OVER ST. PETERSBURG Final fling of color and movement from the sun Celebration of life before it’s done. Bits and pieces of beauty criss-crossed And all is higgledy, but still filled and tossed - Like a rainbow salad...

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Categories: st. petersburg, nature, beauty, beauty, ,
Form: Imagism
St Petersburg In January
ST. PETERSBURG IN JANUARY Frozen stillness of canals: Venice in aspic. Golden-domed church...... Heaven’s bulbs auric. Palaces everywhere - History majestic....

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Categories: st. petersburg, urban
Form: Epigram



Saviour Church, Griboyedova Canal, St Petersburg
SAVIOUR CHURCH, GRIBOYEDOVA CANAL, ST. PETERSBURG In defiance of its Soviet museum-death Reflected in water moved by God’s breath The five-domed Saviour church gives Hope, for its bulbous gold dome yet lives Silent spheres sing of new life glowing With gold-edged scales reflecting, showing In watery swaying flashes Like shoals of precious trembling fishes Each scalloped wavelet free...

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Categories: st. petersburg, inspirational, places, religion, water,
Form: Couplet
The White Night In St. Petersburg
In June in the St.Petersburg the «White Night» is the all-night twilight because the sun is only 8 or 10 degrees below the horizon in the middle of the night. The sky doesn’t get at all dark. During of it all city is very beautiful and mysterious. Lilac, lilac, lilac! Shadows of forgotten days, Heroes of ancient legends And...

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Categories: st. petersburg, imagination, inspirational, mystery, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Brilliant St. Petersburg
Ah, what beauty around! This day began deliberately. Even the sky and river Neva have a same a blue colour. Between them domes fly, and a thin steeple rises with a little gold ship at the top. In the Smolny Cathedral, the bells whisper. On the Gulf, calm and silence prevails. I see unearthly beauty in the lacy lattices of fencings; lanterns guard bridges for you, my...

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Categories: st. petersburg, art, history, nostalgia, places,
Form: Lyric



Night St. Petersburg
How lovely night St. Petersburg! Nevsky Prospekt Is still one from the most beautiful views in the world, With his color fires. Through 300 years, Through many, many days. The silhouettes of bridges And ancient lanterns still – are fine! Here the charming old lattice keeps Old Summer Garden near the river Neva, Here among ancient lindens Marble...

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Categories: st. petersburg, history, nostalgia, song-night, night,
Form: Lyric

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