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 ...
Philosophy.Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws,Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause:Who, without Fear, his certain Fate can ...
I STOOD upon a mountain, lip to lipWith rosy morning, and her breathing cameRefreshingly upon my fever'd brow;I felt my ...
Well I remember, many years ago,Deep in the forest shade of Fontainebleau,With six dear girls in lovely virgin prime,Partaking of ...
TO Nature, in her shop one day, at work compounding simples,Studying fresh tints for Beauty's cheeks, or new effects in ...
To say this comedy pleased long ago,Is not enough to make it pass you now.Yet, gentlemen, your ancestors had wit,When ...
TELL me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking;For ye're saying something sweet,Fit the ravish'd ear to greet,Eloquently, softly speaking.Yet I see ...
Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be ...
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
ME Thought I pass'd through th'Edalyan Groues,And askt the Graces, if they could directMe to a Lady whom Minerva chose,With ...
BIRTH OF WAINAMOINEN.In primeval times, a maiden,Beauteous Daughter of the Ether,Passed for ages her existenceIn the great expanse of heaven,O'er ...
You must remember this when I am gone,And tell your sons-for you will have tall sons,And times will come when ...
There was a youthful genius once, a boy of thirteen years, Named Cyrus Franklin Edison Lavoisier De Squeers. To study ...
I saw the prettiest pictureThrough a garden fence to-day,Where the lilies look like angelsJust let out to play,And the roses ...
By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow Through thy sequestered dell unto the sea, At sunny noon, ...
Faithful to your commandments, o consciousness, oHoly bird of words soaring ever whether to nothingness or ...
Arras! Arras! town full of strife,With calumnies and hatred rife;You were a noble town of yore;Your fame, 'tis said, they ...
Suppose you stood just five feet two,And had worked your way as a grocery clerk,Studying law by candle lightUntil you ...
There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where ...
When the sun goes down I have my first drink standing in the yard, talking to my neighbor about the ...
TELL me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking; For ye're saying something sweet, Fit the ravish'd ear to greet, Eloquently, softly ...
in prayer and reflection in meditation and fasting drawing closer to him studying, leaning on God's holy word finding comfort ...
Do the people of the world those who are yet strangers see the face of Christ when they look upon ...
No gifts like the Magi not royalty no gold, no spices no fragrant perfume Offering our hands the work to ...
Do we see the rough hands of the fishermen when we look at our hands do we see the scars ...
Do others see love when they look upon us do they see our Savior in the way that we live ...
When we look at our hands do we see the scars of the nails the sacrifice of Christ Do we ...
Feeling his touch the roughness of his hands the scars from the nails where he was crucified the touch of ...
Watching the fishermen the ones who followed who sought the Messiah who followed the Christ Leaving John, their nets, working ...
Hands that are given offered unto God holy witness to the love in the word Hands that lifted orphans gave ...
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