Zbigniew Herbert City Poems

  • 1.
    I

    I can't find the title
    of a memory about you
    ...
  • 2.
    1

    Troy O Troy
    an archeologist
    ...
  • 3.
    Go where those others went to the dark boundary
    for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize

    go upright among those who are on their knees
    ...
  • 4.
    1
    in the fourth book of the Peloponnesian War
    Thucydides tells among other things
    the story of his unsuccessful expedition
    ...
  • 5.
    To C. M.

    Now that weâ??re alone we can talk prince man to man
    though you lie on the stairs and see more than a dead ant
    ...
  • 6.
    ROVIGO STATION. Unclear associations. A drama of Goethe
    or something from Byron. I traveled through Rovigo
    n times and exactly at the nth time I understood
    that in my inner geography it is a special
    ...
  • 7.
    Too old to carry arms and fight like the others -

    they graciously gave me the inferior role of chronicler
    I record - I don't know for whom - the history of the siege
    ...
  • 8.
    In an eastern city where I wonâ??t return
    there is a winged stone light and huge
    lightning strikes this winged stone
    I close my eyes to remember
    ...
  • 9.
    Lord
    Thank you for creating the world beautiful and of such variety
    And also for allowing me in your inexhaustible goodness
    To visit places which were not the scene of my daily torments
    ...
Total 9 City Poems by Zbigniew Herbert

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