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 ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
The Believer's Principles concerning Faith and Sense.1. Of Faith and Sense natural.2. Of Faith and Sense spiritual.3. The harmony and ...
Snakeskin jacketIndian eyesBrilliant hairHe moves in disturbedNile insectAir~~~You parade thru the soft summerWe watch your eager rifle decayYour wildernessYour teeming ...
The story of King Arthur old is very memorable,The number of his valiant knights, and roundness of his Table.The knights ...
O days endeared to every Muse,When nobody had any Views,Nor, while the cloudscape of his mindBy every breeze was new ...
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an ...
Guid-Mornin' to our Majesty!May Heaven augment your blissesOn ev'ry new birth-day ye see,A humble poet wishes.My bardship here, at your ...
What! our petitions spurned! The prayerOf thousands,—tens of thousands,—castUnheard, beneath your Speaker's chair!But ye will hear us, first or last.The ...
CHILD AND BOATMAN.“Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs.”“You do, sir?” “Yes, I wonder how they come.”“Well, boy, I wonder ...
Morn rose upon the purple hills,In all his pomp display'd;Flash'd forth like stars a hundred rills,In valley, plain, and glade.The ...
I. When I fare forth to kiss the eyes of Spring, On ways, which arch gold sunbeams and pearl buds Embraced, two whispers ...
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wearA weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,Seems of the sort that in a crowded placeOne ...
How vain are mortal man's endeavours? (Said, at dame Elleot's, master Travers) Good Orleans dead! in truth 'tis hard: Oh! may all statesmen ...
<i>A moonlight moor. Fairies leading a child.</i>Male Fairies: Do not fear us, earthly maid!We will lead you hand in handBy ...
WHO dat knockin' at de do'?Why, Ike Johnson, — yes, fu' sho!Come in, Ike. I's mighty gladYou come down. I ...
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace& grapple a handgun at stomach level between them.They jerk ...
Where do you go when you go to sleep, Little Boy! Little Boy! where?'Way--'way in where's Little Bo-Peep,And Little Boy Blue, ...
Sail not too rashly out to sea,My friend, nor, fearful of the roarOf winds and waters, hug too closeThe rocky ...
They were never handsome and often camewith a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence,a yodel of a voice or ears big ...
Through tannic steam I catch a glimpse of Fuji:Against a yellow sky volcanic goldA saucer narrows nature very strangely,In shallow ...
Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire, No finger ever traced thy yellow page Save Time's. Thou hast not wrought to noble ...
The _Charles-and-Emma_ seaward sped,(Named from the carven pair at prow,)He so smart, and a curly head,She tricked forth as a ...
Over meadow stands new moon,Over boundary of dew.Come, we'll make a friend of you,Dear, distant, alien.In the day I hide, ...
IHe who has looked upon EarthDeeper than flower and fruit,Losing some hue of his mirth,As the tree striking rock at ...
Three times the glorious god of light, and life, Along the sapphire pavement of the sky Careering,--through the immense of ...
1--IIn middle age an evil thingBefell Archduchess Anne:She looked outside her wedding-ringUpon a princely man.IICount Louis was for horse and ...
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
And—'Yonder look! yoho! yoho! Nancy is off!' the farmer cried, Advancing by the river side, Red-kerchieft and brown-coated;—'So, My girl, ...
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