Three Lines (Henrikas Radauskas Poems)
The two-headed black man - an animal(The old man is sad and the lion fierce)With cold orange eyes lookedAt sun-flamed ...
The two-headed black man - an animal(The old man is sad and the lion fierce)With cold orange eyes lookedAt sun-flamed ...
The birds come closer.I can't catch them.Fog and smoke carry them.I can't bendAnd catch the fish in the fountain.I'll go ...
He descended from heaven on a ropeInto a king's palace. The straw roof,Wanting to block the thief's path,Began to burn. Running ...
To hell with elevated artAnd all long idle gloomy hoursWhen in the springtime in the yardThe chestnut-tree bursts into flowers.It ...
Through the hospital window chloroformFlows from a broken bottleInto evening's garden,And a poplar's feet fall asleepAnd his hands get lost ...
Sitting there, right over the abyss,With the snow hanging down by his head,His elbows propped on a black crag,The devil ...
I am an arrow that a child shot throughAn apple tree in bloom beside the sea;A cloud of apple blossoms, ...
For starters, stompThe window both hands.Stop whirling, world. LaughAnd listen. Hear the glass? Clang!Five flights up is no high flying.Where ...
Morning rolls in on restless trains.Her glance flashes against the iron rails.Heaven, forests and the platform are born here,Where there ...
He comes across the granite yard,Grizzled feather glint in his black wings.He strokes the tree, the water and the cat,Glances ...
A wind blows from the pyramids,From kings and from castles,From churches slender as spears,From corpulent baroque flowers.O, how pretty is ...
His profile, grave and fine, can severLike sharpest sword. Do you not hear?Apollo passed this way. For everThe echo of ...
I drank foaming milkAnd ate unearthly bread.The embering day I sawWas a flower blooming red.Shepherds played pipes for meIn the ...
A flower tells the wind it's set to bloom next day.The wind hears it as "right away"And whispers "pass it ...
When I think back to days gone byI write these infinitely simple songs:About the gold roof on my father's shack,our ...
Through darkening telegraph polesAt the crossroads, near grey piles of gravel,I see frail farmsteads scatteredAgainst the dimmed autumn background.Beyond the ...
Guess what smells so... You didn't guess.Lilies? Lindens? No. Winds? No.But princes and barbers smell so,The evening smells so, in ...
Fate has decreed, once I crossThe world's valleys and crests,That I, a forlorn Orpheus,Start my descent into hell.Joining a thousand ...
A mechanical angel's duties are not difficult:Govern lightning bolts, bring bread and wine,Watch through the window how flames climb the ...
All at once their hands met,They both went weak in the knees.A cannon thundered on screen,A smokebank loomed over the ...
Bronze Orpheus crosses the field,Playing a guitar without strings.He's called up springtimes and windsAnd now pours his grief in the ...
Crying out that he had no soulHe jumped to earth from the crooked tower.Beneath him lakes glittered with coinsAnd grass ...
Winter zaps earth with crystals,Slides in tablefuls of ice,Then pours on precious metalsAnd voices apostolicGoldentongued, silvertonguedBronze evening bells;It digs itself ...
Oh beauty with weary arms in the pitying neon lightThat pours like death moans on your hair,Oh beauty with weary arms, ...
A thin cypress scrapes the sky,And the hot day's perfumePours itself on the landscape's wounds.Delicate needles pierce the heart;Fainting she ...
A young dancer lies near the heartOf the hoary world. A phonographScratches through a finished recordRustling like the wind. And ...
I'm not building a home, or leading the nationJust sitting here under branches of a white acaciaWhere an airy breeze ...
A paled evening, turning to fog,Seeps from a quiet sky into the gardenThrough a green leaf glass, rustles in the ...
Soldiers and cows march down the road.Red sunset shines through dust.Birds flew by above the green willow,Flowers by the path, ...
I don't know, a girl or a column -I couldn't tell in the dark,But I felt the thin waistAnd heard ...
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