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 ...
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
Tune — "Lady Isabella's Tragedy." or "The Stepmother's cruelty."Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,Who heretofore did reignIn famed Hibernia, I will ...
All winterThe trees held up their silent hivesAs if they mattered.But on one main street of bars and lights,I watched ...
Two friends were sitting at a table drinking tea.A sudden hubbub arose in the street. They heard pitiable groans, furiousabuse, ...
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
It is an old piano, belonged to a grandmother, dead in another century. And it plays and it cries and ...
. . . and the children's teeth shall be set on edge.I see him old, trapped in a burly houseCold ...
I am shocked beyond words! (Said the statesman. 'Tis crimeThat the clamoring herds Should seek war at this time.For a ...
Unrighteous, unholy tribunal illegal trial, false witnesses - Love ridiculed, mocked as blasphemy The shadow of accusation, of cruel judgment ...
Agent Ferman of the FBI Came and looked me in the eye Grabbed me from my house I had to ...
For Robert Lowell This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing ...
Give me life at its most garish Friday night in the Square, pink sequins dazzle And dance on clubbers bare ...
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