# Poetry — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Poetry by Taras Shevchenko.

- [The Night of Taras](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/the-night-of-taras.md): The Kobzar sings of Taras Traselo's night battle against the Poles, celebrating Cossack glory and lamenting Ukraine's loss of freedom. The song recounts the ambush, the feast of the Polish lords, the Cossack attack at ni
- [Topolia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/topolia.md): The poem 'Topolia' (The Poplar) tells the story of a maiden who falls in love with a Cossack who departs and perishes. Unable to bear her loss and pressured by her mother to marry an old rich man, she seeks help from a f
- [Hamaleia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/hamaleia.md): The Cossacks, imprisoned in Skutari, sing of their homeland and pray for rescue. Their cries stir the Dnieper and Bosphorus, leading Hamaleia to lead a raid. He breaks into the prison, frees the captives, and together th
- [Khustina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/khustina.md): A young orphan girl embroiders a betrothal kerchief (khustina) while awaiting her Tchumak lover's return. The Tchumak, burdened by misfortune and unrequited love, dies on the steppes before reaching her. The kerchief end
- [Naimechka (The Servant)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/naimechka.md): An old couple, Trophimus and Anastasia, living in comfort but childless, find an abandoned infant at their gate and adopt him, naming him Mark. Years later, a young woman named Anna joins the household as a servant and d

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- [Prologue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/prologue.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [Caucasus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/caucasus.md)
- [To the Circassians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-the-circassians.md)
- [To the Rich and Great](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-the-rich-and-great.md)
- [To the Master](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-the-master.md)
- [Again Addressing the Circassians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/again-addressing-the-circassians.md)
- [To Jacques de Balmont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-jacques-de-balmont.md)
- [To the Dead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-the-dead.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [Lyric: From Day to Day, from Night to Night](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/lyric-from-day-to-day-from-night-to-night.md)
- [A Poem of Exile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/a-poem-of-exile.md)
- [Memories of an Exile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/memories-of-an-exile.md)
- [Hymn of Exile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/hymn-of-exile.md)
- [On the Eleventh Psalm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/on-the-eleventh-psalm.md)
- [Prayer: To Tsars and Kings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/prayer-to-tsars-and-kings.md)
- [Prayer: My Prayer for the Tsars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/prayer-my-prayer-for-the-tsars.md)
- [Prayer: For Those That Have Done Wrong to Me](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/prayer-for-those-that-have-done-wrong-to-me.md)
- [Prayer: To Those of the Ever-Greedy Eyes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/prayer-to-those-of-the-ever-greedy-eyes.md)
- [Mighty Wind](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/mighty-wind.md)
- [Hymn of the Nuns](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/hymn-of-the-nuns.md)
- [To the Goddess of Fame](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-the-goddess-of-fame.md)
- [Iconoclasm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/iconoclasm.md)
- [My Testament](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/my-testament.md)
- [The Water Fairy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/the-water-fairy.md)
- [Lyric: Only Friend, Clear Evening Twilight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/lyric-only-friend-clear-evening-twilight.md)
- [The Reaper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/the-reaper.md)
- [Lyric: I Care Not, Shall I See My Dear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/lyric-i-care-not-shall-i-see-my-dear.md)
- [A Dream](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/a-dream.md)
- [Kalina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/kalina.md)
- [The Monk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/the-monk.md)
- [Drowsy the Waves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/drowsy-the-waves.md)
- [See Fires Ablaze](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/see-fires-ablaze.md)
- [To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/to-the-makers-of-sentimental-idyls.md)
- [The Bondwoman's Dream](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/the-bondwoman-s-dream.md)
- [Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/winter.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_22_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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