Zbigniew Herbert City Poems
- 1. Three Poems By Heart
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I can't find the title
of a memory about you
... - 2. About Troy
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Troy O Troy
an archeologist
... - 3. The Envoy Of Mr Cogito
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. Why The Classics
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in the fourth book of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides tells among other things
the story of his unsuccessful expedition
... - 5. Elegy Of Fortinbras
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
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. Report From The Besieged City
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 A City
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. Prayer Of Pan Cogito - Traveller
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
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