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 ...
Poems about petersburg (18 Poems)
The Ballad Of The Sixty-Ninth. 1861-1911 (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Clouds black with thunder o'er the Southern states;North, East and West a sickening fear;The Union on the dark laps of ...
The Lieutenant (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
For three long months continues the bombardment.The bloodstained Malakov withstands it still.The hoarse-voiced drum drives on the British redcoats.Once more ...
Masha (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
When I lived, many years ago, in Petersburg, every time I chanced to hire asledge, I used to get into ...
Cabbage Soup (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
A peasant woman, a widow, had an only son, a young man of twenty, the bestworkman in the village, and ...
The V. N. And C. I. (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Near the City of Petersburg,As seen by the passers-by,In the neighborhood of Ettricks,Stands the V. N. and C. I.A building ...
The College Colonel (Herman Melville Poems)
He rides at their head; A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,One slung arm in splints, you see, Yet he ...
“In Petersburg we’ll meet again” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
In Petersburg we'll meet again,As though we'd buried the sun there,And for the first time utterThe blessed, senseless word.In the ...
James Hugo Johnston (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
On a hill near Petersburg,Facing the old historic town,There lives a model Negro-One who's won renown.A man we should be ...
Lee In The Mountains (Donald Grady Davidson Poems)
Walking into the shadows, walking aloneWhere the sun falls through the ruined boughs of locustUp to the president's office. . ...
The Three Musicians (Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Poems)
Along the path that skirts the wood, The three musicians wend their way,Pleased with their ...
Deer (Ellis Parker Butler Poems)
The deer's a mighty useful beastFrom Petersburg to TennysonFor while he lives he lopes aroundAnd when he's dead he's venison.Ellis ...
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals (Norman Dubie Poems)
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Daffy Duck In Hollywood (John Ashbery Poem)
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Come On In, The Senility Is Fine (Ogden Nash Poems)
People live forever in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Tampa, But you don't have to live forever to become a ...