Iosif Brodsky. Selected Poems

Contents

• Foreword (by W. H. Auden)
• Introduction (by G. Kline)
• A Note on the Translation (by G. Kline)

• A Christmas Ballad ("In anguish unaccountable...") (1962)
• Sonnet ("The month of January has flown past...") (1962)
• "Exhaustion now is a more frequent guest..." (1960)
• "You're coming home again. What does that mean?..." (1961)
• Sonnet ("Great-hearted Hector has been speared to death...") (1961)
• "The tenant finds his new house wholly strange..." (1962)
• "That evening, sprawling by an open fire..." (1961)
• "The fire, as you can hear, is dying down..." (1962)
• Elegy for John Donne ("John Donne has sunk in sleep... All things beside...") (1963)
• Sonnet ("Once more we're living by the Bay of Naples...") (1962)
• "When I embraced these shoulders, I beheld..." (1962)
• Enigma for an Angel ("Dreams rock the blanket-universe...") (1962)
• A Slice of Honeymoon ("Never, never forget...") (1963)
• "You'll flutter, robin redbreast, from those three..." (24 May 1964)
• A Prophecy ("We'll go and live together by the shore...") (1965)
• New Stanzas to Augusta ("September came on Tuesday...") (1964)
• To Lycomedes on Scyros ("I quit this city, as once Theseus quit...") (1967)
• "Refusing to catalogue all of one's woes..." (June 1967)
• Stanzas ("Let our farewell be silent...") (March 1968)
• Aeneas and Dido ("The great man stared out through the open window...") (1969)
• Postscriptum ("How sad that my life has not come to mean...") (September 1967)
• "Quilt-jacketed, a tree-surgeon..." (18 January 1964)
• Wagon Train ("The thicker the shadows spill...") (Tarusa, February 1964)
• Sadly and Tenderly ("They served us noodles one more time, and you...") (1964)
• Spring Season of Muddy Roads ("The rain has turned the roads...") (1964)
• "In villages God does not live only..." (1964)
• "The days glide over me..." (June 1964)
• "The trees in my window, in my wooden-framed window..." (October 1964)
• "Now that I've walled myself off from the world..." (1966)
• Evening ("Snow had sifted through cracks...") (1965)
• 1 January 1965 ("The Wise Men will unlearn your name...") (1965)
• The Candlestick ("The satyr, having quit the bronzy stream...") (1968)
• On Washerwoman Bridge ("On Washerwoman Bridge, where you and I...") (1968)
• September the First ("The day was called, simply, `September first'...") (1967)
• The Fountain ("From the lion's jaws...") (December 1967)
• Almost an Elegy ("In days gone by I too have waited out...") (Autumn 1968)
• Verses in April ("Once again this past winter...") (April 1969)
• A Winter Evening in Yalta ("He has a sear Levantine face, its pock...") (January 1969)
• Verses on the Death of T. S. Eliot ("He died at start of year, in January...") (12 January 1965)
• To a Certain Poetess ("I have a touch of normal classicism...") (September 1965)
• A Letter in a Bottle ("Forward, it seems, is where mouth and nose...") (1965)
• Einem alten Architekten in Rom ("Let's take a carriage -- if indeed a shade...") (1964)
• Two Hours in an Empty Tank ("I am an anti-fascist anti-Faust...") (September 1965)
• From The School Anthology: Albert Frolov ("Albert Frolov loved silence as a boy...") (1969)
• A Halt in the Desert ("So few Greeks live in Leningrad today...") (1966)
• Adieu, Mademoiselle Véronique ("If I end my days in the shelter of dove-wings...") (1967)
• Post Aetatem Nostram ("`The Empire is a country for dull fools.'...") (20 October 1970)
• Nature Morte ("People and things crowd in...") (1971)
• Nunc dimittis ("When Mary first came to present the Christ Child..." (16 February 1972)
• Odysseus to Telemachus ("My dear Telemachus...") (1972)

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