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 ...
AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUEThe first messages received through the submarine cablewere sent by an electrical expert, a mysterious personagewho signed himself ...
The afternoon had a flu-like quality, gray and threatening to burst into tears at any moment, but I held it ...
every springas the hawthorns blossomalong the rivermy grandfathersmiling hands mea flute he has just carvedfrom willow woodhe's been dead a ...
Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;He held the Human Race in Scorn,And lived with all his Sisters whereHis father lived, in ...
In such an inexplicable blue,Upon the stonework to embark,The little ship of glowing hueAppears in Alexander Park.The little lamp, a ...
Wondah whut on earf tiz ails me,Seems I see mo' outlan'ish t'ings,Sech ez wagons pullin' hosses,An' red mens, wid horns ...
You ask about these wrinkles, These wrinkles I have on my brow,If you'll give me your kind applause, sir, For ...
The cause of all the troubleWas McCabe, the jackeroo,Who had ordered what, facetiously,He'd christened "Wild Stuff Stew"He had shot a ...
Oh, how I hate these chills, these winter ills, Bleak blasts and breezes;Abominate the "flu," the fierce "Tishoo" -- All ...
My natal day was yesterday; And so I said to Fate,"What gifts bring you, by one, by two, To ease ...
Clara strolled in the garden with the children.The sky was green over the grass,the water was golden under the bridges,other ...
Because the road to our house is a back road, meadowlands punctuated by gravel quarry and lumberyard, there are unexpected ...
I hadn't had the 'flu in ages, avoided all those awful places fraught of gritty eyes and splitting heads, patrons ...
Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the ...
"Remember, you loved me, when we were young, one day" The words of the song in Tauber's mellifluous tenor Haunt ...
ALL the policemen, saloonkeepers and efficiency experts in Toledo knew Bern Dailey; secretary ten years when Whitlock was mayor. Pickpockets, ...
The laughter of women sets fire to the Halls of Injustice and the false evidence burns to a beautiful white ...
Say Bazonka every day That's what my grandma used to say It keeps at bay the Asian Flu' And both ...
Maveric Prowles Had Rumbling Bowles That thundered in the night. It shook the bedrooms all around And gave the folks ...
My sleeping children are still flying dreams in their goose-down heads. The lush of the river singing morning songs Fish ...
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