History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
The Sun's in its orbit, yet I feel morbid.Act 1PrologueLadies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let ...
I don't much s'pose, hows'ever I should plen it,I could git boosted into th' House or Sennit,--Nut while the twolegged ...
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the ...
(March 4, 1913)Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;I crave thy succour, ask for thine assistanceThat men may cry: 'Some ...
This to Hale in the West, from the Dean beneath his Cathedral.Greeting and health, and many New--year and Christmas blessings;Also, ...
Lord Dunmore's Petition to the Legislature of VirginiaHUMBLY SHOWETH,THAT a silly old fellow, much noted of yore,And known by the ...
Libera nos, Domine — Deliver us, O Lord,Not only from British dependence, but also,FROM a junto that labor for absolute ...
"Peace with honour," glorious, joy-lit words!Britons, lay down your arms, re-sheath your swords,For the red demon War lies foiled and ...
Thank God! from our old ensign Is erased one mark of shame,Which leaves one less to rapine, One less to blight our ...
1.-THE NOMINATIONVHEN ash de var vas ober, und Beace her shnow-wice vings Vas vafin' o'er de coondry (in shpodts) like ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
Evening: In the festive halls the light of many candles gleams, Shedding from the mirrors' crystal thousand-fold reflected beams. ...
My father knows the proper way The nation should be run;He tells us children every day Just what should now ...
Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! ...
My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us children every day Just what should ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
How tall among her sisters, and how fair, -- How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, 'mid wrinkled ...
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