Soldiers’ Songs (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
1It's good and beautiful to be a soldier for a year.You live longer that way. And one is certainly pleasedWith ...
1It's good and beautiful to be a soldier for a year.You live longer that way. And one is certainly pleasedWith ...
The heat sticks closely to the gun and to the hand.It pricks the eyes. Nothing remained forgotten.The troops stepped, half ...
The troops are singing fervently, each for himself:God, protect me from misfortune,Father, Son and Holy Spirit,That no grenades strike me,That ...
It's enough to make me throw the chair through the panes of themirror Into the street--There I sit with raised ...
Paul said:Ah, but who wouldn't want to drive a car forever--We burrow our way through high-stemmed woods,We pass by spaces ...
A fog has destroyed the world so gently.Bloodless trees dissolve in smoke.And shadows hover where shrieks are heard.Burning beasts evaporate ...
You don't love me... I have never appealed to you...Was never your type...And my hard eyes annoy you, my darling...I'm ...
Without horror you devour dead flesh every day.And dead blood is a sweet syrup for you.Aren't you afraid?--Indeed your earliest ...
Before I die, I must just find this rhyme.Be quiet, my friends, and do not waste any time.We're marching off ...
for Peter ScherBefore dying I am making my poem.Quiet, comrades, don't disturb me.We are going off to war. Death is ...
The deserted streets flow in gleaming lightThrough my dull head. And hurt me.I clearly feel that I shall soon slip ...
The earth grows moldy in fog.The evening is as oppressive as lead.Electric sparks crackle and whimper all around,Breaking everything in ...
Decline already--But that was quick...Hardly a trace of rising--I have grown above the whole world.I have become the complete GodAnd ...
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