Paton Bridge across the Dnieper River in Kiev (Ukraine)

Clutching his cross, Saint Vladimir

Gazes with eyes that seem to grieve

Across the sandy Dnieper

He baptized Godforsaken Kiev

Now deconverted trolleys turn

Around the square, emitting sparks.

The churches, cold as attics, burn

With gilt above the popular parks

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Kiev
Poem by John Updike

Parkovy Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev (Ukraine)

When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.

Taras Shevchenko

Kiev Metro Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev (Ukraine)

The mighty Dnieper roars and bellows,
The wind in anger howls and raves,
Down to the ground it bends the willows,
And mountain-high lifts up the waves.

The pale-faced moon picked out this moment
To peek out from behind a cloud,
Like a canoe upon the ocean
It first tips up, and then dips down.

The cocks don’t crow to wake the morning,
There’s not as yet a sound of man,
The owls in glades call out their warnings,
And ash trees creak and creak again.

Poem by Taras Shevchenko

Parkovy Bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev (Ukraine)

Lovely is the Dnieper in tranquil weather when, freely and smoothly, its waters glide through forests and mountains. Not a sound, not a ripple is stirring. You look and cannot tell wether its majestic expanse moves or does not move; and it might be of molten crystal and like a blue road made of mirror, inmensurably broad, endlessly long and twisting about the green world.

Nicolai Gogol

New Darnytskyi Bridge or Kirpa Bridge over the River Dnieper in Kiev (Ukraine)

"Petersburg is a young city, Moscow is old, but Kyiv is the eternal city. This is Northern Rome"

Honore de Balzac

Paton Bridge across the Dnieper River in Kiev (Ukraine)

«Oh, Kyiv city! Beauty! That’s how Laura burning on the mountains! And the Dnipro - indescribable light! Herbs! Hay smells! Slopes!

Valleys! »

Mikhail Bulgakov