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 ...
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
Muse, who art quick to fireAt the least noble thing,And frankest praise to bringUpon the quivering lyre,Why art thou slow ...
Late Medical Officer of Health for West Kent, and formerly ofBirkenhead_.DIED DECEMBER 12TH, 1884.Broken the silver cord! the harp unstrung!And ...
Regard the capture here, 0 Janus-faced,As double as the hands that twist this glass.Such eves at search or rest you ...
The survival of the fittest, The advancement of the best, The enthronement of the truest In the world's great crucial test, Is emblazoned on ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
November 5: 1854 In the solid sombre mist And the drizzling dazzling shower They may mass them as they list, ...
The world has crowned a thousand kings:But destiny has keptHer weightiest hour of kingly powerTo offer England's son.The rising bell ...
A little time agone, a few brief years,And there was peace within our beauteous borders;Peace, and a prosperous people, and ...
Back of each soldier who fights for France,Aye, back of each woman and manWho toils and prays through these long ...
You stroll down your road,killing the leaves of fall,crushing the veins of families.On this fourth-last fall of allyou leave what ...
To Denis DevlinAgain the native hour lets down the locksUncombed and black, but gray the bobbing beard;Ten years ago His ...
That Iam much too oldfor youor that youare too young for methese are allhefty argumentsthat would be crucialin the training ...
I have put on my great coat it is cold. It is an outer garment. Coarse, woolen. Of unknown origin. ...
And now our government a bird with two right wings flies on from zone to zone while we go on ...
Most explicit-- the sense of trap as a narrowing cone one's got stuck into and any movement forward simply wedges ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
standing in front of a mirror you recall it said: to hinge upon time is self-delusion tomorrows and days after, ...
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