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 ...
IIn a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions,There are plenty of sweeping, swinging, stinging, gorgeous things ...
LIFE seems belittled when a great man dies;The age ...
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
The president has thus disclosedIn words his noblest plan:"The door of hope shall not be closedUpon the Negro man."His opportunities ...
Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollarsHe was TightFrog waitsTill poor flyFlies byAnd then they got himThe pool of clear ...
You have the grit and the guts, I know; You are ready to answer blow for blow You are virile, ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
It starts with the picture of my grandfather,machinegunned in his car, Packard De Luxe, 1923.A snapshot with poor composition, slightlyout ...
was a truly amazing manhe pretended to bericheven though we lived on beans and mush and weenieswhen we sat down ...
("If I have erred I err in company with AbrahamLincoln."--THEODORE ROOSEVELT.)If e'er my rhyming be at fault, If e'er I ...
If only Mr. RooseveltKnew how officers in the blues felt,He wouldn't be so rifeWith his Strenuous Life.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Theodore Roosevelt "The interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-Heart."--Bunyan's' Pilgrim's Process Concerning brave Captains Our age ...
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
A born salesman, my father made all his dough by selling wool to Fieldcrest, Woolrich and Faribo. A born talker, ...
You have the grit and the guts, I know; You are ready to answer blow for blow You are virile, ...
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar's garden, Tossing ...
THIS Mohammedan colonel from the Caucasus yells with his voice and wigwags with his arms. The interpreter translates, "I was ...
(ROOSEVELT) He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and ...
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