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 ...
I.St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen ...
The years go by, but they little seemLike those within our dream;The years that stood in such luring guise,Beckoning us ...
A BalladLife seems wed to gaietyAs the dancers tread the measure.Each feels chosen speciallyFor the sacred vows to pleasure.Rosy cheeks ...
THE sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,The rifle hangs safe on the wall;No longer we quail at the hungryHot rush ...
A BalladThe Knight, he stands at the iron gate,The Maiden so sweet and fair looks out."Dear Knight, however can I ...
VANISH, dark clouds on high,Offspring of night!Let a more radiant beamThrough the blue ether gleam,Charming the sight!Would the dark clouds ...
In shame is man conceived, through pain is born,And brief the time upon this earth he goesIn life inconstant, full ...
My monkey-wrench man is my sweet patootie;the lover of my life, my youth and age.My heart belongs to him and ...
Fields of lucerne and waving wheat,White-washed sheds, and cottage neat,Nesting orchards and mulberry trees,Scented flowers round hives of bees,With the ...
Ho, Giant! This is I!I have built me a bean-stalk into your sky!La,—but it's lovely, up so high!This ...
If only dinner cooked itself,And groceries grew upon the shelf;If children did as they were told,And never had a cough ...
Black lie the hills; swiftly doth daylight flee; And, catching gleams of sunset's dying smile, Through the dusk land for ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
The air is perfumed with the morning's fresh breeze, From the bush peer the sunbeams all purple and bright, While ...
What I seek far yet seldom find Is large simplicity of mind In fellow men; For I have sprouted from ...
Do you recall that happy bike With bundles on our backs? How near to heaven it was like To blissfully ...
As down Mount Emerald at eve I came, The mountain moon went all the way with me. Backward I looked, ...
Ho, Giant! This is I! I have built me a bean-stalk into your sky! La,-but it's lovely, up so high! ...
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities ...
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