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 ...
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
1640-1890.O river winding to the sea!We call the old time back to thee;From forest paths and water-waysThe century-woven veil we ...
On these green banks, where falls too soonThe shade of Autumn's afternoon,The south wind blowing soft and sweet,The water gliding ...
What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar? On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,Didst gather it, thou ...
If there is one gift that I prize above others, That tinges with brightness whatever I do, And gives to the sombre ...
When steadily blew the wind from shores of Thrace,And stirred the vines of Lesbos, loaded downWith racy fruit all round ...
Thrice welcome from the Land of FlowersAnd golden-fruited orange bowersTo this sweet, green-turfed June of ours!To her who, in our ...
What story is here of broken love, What idyllic sad romance,What arrow fretted the silken dove That met with such grim mischance?I ...
I read the marble-lettered name, And half in bitterness I said,"As Dante from Ravenna came, Our poet came from exile-dead."And yet, had ...
WISTARIA in full blossom,-pendent spraysOf lilac shading almost into white,And golden green of foliage soft and bright!Well might one be ...
Forty Years AfterCOMRADE, yet a little further I would go before the nightCloses round and chills in darkness all the ...
Now a sad farewell to the cable-tram, Staunch friend of the quieter days,That glided down thro' a leisured town Ere ...
So when he turned Evangelist, see what came,-Writ on his page were stories, with sweet tearsBaptized by all the yearnings ...
alas our good kaspar is dead. who will bury a burning flag in the wings of the clouds who will ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
Your dust will be upon the wind Within some certain years, Though you be sealed in lead to-day Amid the ...
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