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 ...
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild ocean's echoing shore, And thou hast lingered there, Until the sun's broad orb Seemed ...
PILGRIMS who journey in the narrow way,Should go as little cumbered as they may.'Tis heavy sailing with a freighted ship ...
IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFTLOGICIANS have but ill defin'dAs rational, the human kind;Reason, they say, belongs to man,But let them ...
I saw within the wheelwright's shedThe big round cartwheels, blue and red;A plough with blunted share;A blue tin jug; a ...
In the grassplot's center was a bed of red roses,A circle in a pear; round-eyed and fragrantThe great tame blossoms ...
'And even our women,' lastly grumbles Ben,'Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!'A damsel, as our train stops at ...
Direct your glass towards the frigates.The clock's hands are stayed this quarter-hour.You have one more skull to caressBefore the routing ...
The grass grows over Eurekaand Stuart's tree is burned;Greenaway's stones are downand our eyes are dull and blind.The increase-stones are ...
When old ADAM bit the apple, And thereafter had to grappleWith hard toil to earn ...
snow liesearth flieslights flipnight walks innight lies on a rug of starsnight how are you spelled?like an inane leversleeps the ...
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods- that present that ...
'Little kids,' you call usAs we are at play.You were little childrenJust the other day.Now to-morrow nears us,Soon we too ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods-- that present that ...
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