The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

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  On the birth of his son, 869

  On the critical attitude, 927

  On the death of a criminal, 261

  On the death of a fighter for peace, 697

  On the death of the poet Thomas Otway, 747

  On the decline of love, 640

  On the drinking of schnapps, 187

  On the fickleness of women, 610

  On the heels of the regime’s rallies, 591

  On the Jews, 543

  On the label emigrant, 730

  On the meaning of the ten-line poem in issue 888 of The Torch (October 1933), 483

  On the often heard sentence, barbarism comes from barbarism, 545

  On the poor man’s early labour . . . , 441

  On the proper enjoyment of spirituous liquors, 142

  On the rebuilding of the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus, 1003

  On the Ruhr there’s a house in ruins . . . , 970

  On the seduction of angels, 945

  On the suicide of the refugee W.B., 835

  On the swift fall from grace of the worthy know-nothing, 485

  On the wall in chalk were the words:, 656

  On the way from Augsburg to Timbuktu . . . , 121

  On violence, 602

  On vitality, 85

  On watering the garden, 879

  Once, 918

  Once there was a mother . . . , 966

  One day when victory . . . , 642

  One thing not like another, 965

  One time among many times . . . , 884

  The one-armed man among the trees, 1017

  The opium smoker, 259

  Orge’s reply on being sent a soaped rope, 199

  Orge’s song, 186

  Our earth, undoing . . . , 103

  Our peoples were still tearing one another to pieces . . . , 931

  Our unceasing conversation . . . , 609

  Out of the libraries . . . , see (1940) 2

  Over a bottle of wine . . . , 771

  Over the sound the rain clouds hang, but the garden . . . , see (Spring 1938) 2

  The pace of socialist reconstruction, 691

  A painter, 33

  The painter’s (presumptive) answer, 645

  Parade of the benefactors, 901

  Parade of the old New, 797

  The parting, 626

  The party is in danger, 411

  The passenger, 563

  Passion, 8

  The people live on . . . , 952

  The people say . . . , 814

  The people who stole the book that was yours . . . , 565

  The play is over . . . , 895

  Pleasures, 1044

  The plum song, 944

  The plum tree, 666

  Poem for adults, 1056

  Poem in thanks to Mari Hold, on 5 October 1934, 490

  Poem of the Unknown Soldier under the triumphal arch, 344

  Poems in exile, 566

  Political observations, 117

  The politician, 867

  Poor B.B., 250

  The poor man’s pound, 470

  The poor man’s song, 933

  The poorer pupils from the suburbs, 629

  Postcard from a socialist city, 1066

  The power of the workers, 524

  Praise of doubt, 765

  Praise of the revolutionary, see Cantata on the anniversary of Lenin’s death

  A prediction, 621

  Pride, 917

  The prisoner’s dreams, 632

  The procession in Capri, 151

  The prodigal son, 97

  Professor Sil Maria, 12

  A prohibition on theatre criticism, 728

  A proletarian mother’s speech to her sons at the outbreak of war, 756

  Prometheus, 100

  A protest in the sixth year of Ch’ien Fu, 869

  Prototype of a bad man, 178

  Provisions for a purpose, 1018

  Psalm 2, 44

  Psalm in spring, 71

  Psalms, 53

  Purging the theatre of illusions, 923

  A question, 764

  Questions, 582

  Questions and answers, 765

  Questions of a worker who reads, 675

  The rag-and-bone-man, 364

  Rain among the pines, 1008

  The rain falls down from up above . . . , 877

  The Reader for City Dwellers, see From the Reader for City Dwellers

  Reading the newspaper while making tea, 863

  Reading without innocence, 904

  A realization, 955

  Reason, 101

  Recently I heard tell . . . , 535

  Reconstruction in the time of the housepainter, 627

  Red carnival, 841

  Refuge, 732

  Remarkable how even the greatest pass . . . , 159

  Remember, these are the years . . . , 375

  Remembering a certain M.N., 269

  Remembering Marie A., 220

  Remembering my little teacher . . . , 822

  Report from Germany, 538

  Report from Herrnburg, 993

  Report of one who failed, 756

  Report on a hundred-year war, 905

  Report on an unsuccessful expedition, 113

  Report to somewhere else, 339

  A report, 475

  The representation of past and present in one, 616

  Resignation, 871

  Resolution, 672

  The revolutionary soldier’s luck, 588

  The riddle, 370

  Riding the swing-boats. 4th Psalm, 55

  The roll call of the vices and the virtues, 799

  Roll of honour for twelve world champions, 354

  The Roman Emperor Nero . . . , 513

  Romanticism, 25

  Rosa, 364

  Rowing, conversation, 1018

  The rulers, 954

  Rules for associating with those who concern themselves with the big issues, 601

  Ruuskanen’s horse, 794

  Sauna and sex, 945

  The scripture says . . . , 807

  The second beat, 615

  Second calendar song, 1026

  Second poem of the dead brickie, 642

  Second poem of the Unknown Soldier under the triumphal arch, 346

  Second song of the Soldier of the Revolution, 588

  The 2nd Psalm, 68. See also Psalm 2

  The second sonnet, 574

  The seduced girls, 238

  See with what wonderful movement . . . , 926

  Seeing how inadequate . . . , 292

  Self-laceration of the proletariat, 843

  Send me a leaf . . . , 1047

  Sending her son off fishing . . . , 617

  Sentimental memories before an inscription, 147

  Serenade, 22

  The Service Train, 710

  Set on the bench the glittering grenades . . . , 636

  700 intellectuals worship an oil tank, 330

  The seven lives of literature, 1022

  Seven roses the rose bush has . . . , 987

  The seventh psalm, 57

  The seventh sonnet, 577

  She went into the hills, 1070

  The ship, 171

  The shipwrecked sailor’s report, 131

  Shopping, 488

  A short epistle alluding to some disagreements, 152

  Showing must be shown, 921

  The siblings-tree, 37

  The sick Communist’s answer to the comrades, 702

  Silk brightly glowing round it like an orange . . . , 137

  Since the spray hissed over . . . , 100

  Singing Steyr motor cars, 361

  The sinners in hell, 249

  Sit down . . . , 341

  Sit down to eat, 961

  The sixth sonnet, 577

  The sky this summer, 1020

  Slave, who will set you free, see None or all

  Smoke, 1017

  Smoke signal, 858

  The snowstorm, see Spring 1938

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sp; So friendliness . . . , 424

  So lads, before they lay down with their lasses . . . , 1046

  So the happy end has happened . . . , 397

  So you could sit here . . . , 1045

  A soldier’s grave, 19

  Soldiers’ song, 81

  Solidarity Song, 405

  Soliloquy of an actress putting on her mask, 647

  Solomon song, 808

  The solution, 1013

  Song, 413

  Song about happiness, 1003

  Song against war, 670

  Song for Herr Münsterer, 43

  Song for peace, 1001

  Song for the foundation of the National Deposit Bank, 397

  A song for the gentlemen on Ward D, 51

  Song from the aquarium. 5th Psalm, 56

  Song from The True Story of Jacob Trotalong, 604

  Song number 2, 433

  Song of a family from the Prairies, 266

  Song of a German mother, 861

  Song of chaos, 496

  The song of fraternization, 816

  Song of lost innocence folding the linen, 132

  Song of love, 51

  Song of my mother. 8th Psalm, 58

  Song of myself. 16th Psalm, 65

  A song of praise (after ‘Commit thou all thy griefs . . . ’), 84

  The song of St Neverever Day, 809

  The song of Surabaya-Johnny, 282

  Song of the catacombs. 13th Psalm, 63

  Song of the class enemy, 455

  Song of the cloud in the night, 35

  Song of the coat and the patch, 414

  Song of the courts, 401

  Song of the defencelessness of the gods and the good, 811

  Song of the Fort Donald railroad gang, 210

  Song of the future, 949

  Song of the gallows-tree birds, 49

  Song of the god of good fortune, 757

  Song of the gut-washer, 972

  Song of the Hours (from the 17th century), 928

  Song of the machines, 353

  The song of the Moldau, 884

  Song of the Mother on the heroic death of the coward Vessovchikov, 416

  Song of the particularity of the Limesian Tuis, 1033

  Song of the playwright, 556

  Song of the Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 848

  Song of the Red Army soldier, 173

  Song of the rivers, 1035

  The song of the roses of the Shipka Pass, 145

  The song of the SA man, 421

  The song of the Saar, 492

  Song of the saved, 31

  Song of the shoe, 452

  The song of the sickle, 501

  Song of the sisters, 90

  Song of the smoke, 812

  Song of the soldier’s widow, 441

  Song of the starling flocks, 663

  Song of the stimulating effect of cash, 506

  Song of the summer. 14th Psalm, 64

  Song of the tank crew, 852

  Song of the three soldiers, 217

  Song of the tired rebels, 48

  Song of the tree of vultures, 23

  Song of the United Front, 671

  Song of the widow in love, 595

  The song of the woman and the soldier, see Ballad of the soldier

  Song of the workers and peasants, 536

  The song of your pound and our pound, 625

  Song on Black Saturday in the eleventh hour of the night before Easter, 202

  Song: Nothing will come of nothing, 385

  Songs for the Guitar by Bert Brecht and His Friends, 47

  Songs of the proletariat, 334

  Sonnet (And now it’s war . . .), 819

  Sonnet (What I still knew . . .), 258

  Sonnet for drinkers, 305

  Sonnet No. 1, 301

  Sonnet No. 1. On the shortage of wickedness, 295

  Sonnet No. 2. Models, 301

  Sonnet Number 3, 306

  Sonnet No. 5. Cow eating, 295

  Sonnet No. 6. A man gets himself to bed, 296

  Sonnet No. 7. An old whore, 297

  Sonnet No. 10. On modesty in a woman, 302

  Sonnet No. 10. On the need for make-up, 297

  Sonnet No. 11. Concerning the enjoyment of married men, 298

  Sonnet No. 12. The lover, 299

  Sonnet No. 14. Inner emptiness, 299

  Sonnet No. 15. On the use of vulgar words, 300

  Sonnet No. 19, 820

  Sonnet Number 3, 306

  Sonnet of an emigrant, 839

  Sonnet on a fair-to-middling copulation, 307

  Sonnet on living badly, 303

  Sonnet on the legacy, 747

  Sonnet on the new edition of François Villon, 398

  Sonnet to Mr Albert Frehse, 307

  Sonnet: The winner, 305

  The sons of Jacob go forth to get food in Egypt, 1031

  Sounds, 1020

  Spring (A withered bough . . .), 1025

  Spring (Long before . . .), 368

  Spring (Spring is coming . . .), 410

  Spring 1938, 788

  (Spring 1938) 2, 788

  (Spring 1938) 3, 789

  Spring is coming. The gentle winds . . . , see (1940) 1

  Stand there, spear of the ash-tree’s wood., 773

  Standing orders for the soldier GGGGGGG, 586

  Steffin Collection, 787

  Step forward! Why are you so late?, 338

  The stone fisher, 798

  Storm bird, 1038

  Strike song, 417

  Studies, 741

  Suggestion to merge architecture with lyric poetry, 559

  Summer 1942, 854

  The summer in Sörnäs, 782

  Sun, 99

  The Sunday Song of the Free Youth Movement, see Solidarity Song

  Svendborg Poems, 649

  The swamp, 934

  Swedish landscape, 759

  Tahiti, 136

  Tailor of Ulm, see Ulm 1592

  Tamburlaine, so I hear . . . , 291

  Tank squadron, I’m glad . . . , 1047

  Taunting the soldier of the revolution. His answer, 703

  The teach-me-better, 803

  Teddy’s song, 34

  Tell the man drawing the cart, 1032

  The tenth sonnet (The name I most like . . .), 578

  The tenth sonnet (The world loves me or not . . .), 362

  Tercets on love, 371

  The terrifying doctrine and opinions of the Master Court Physicist Galileo Galilei or A foretaste of the future, 814

  That is his lot, the man you loved . . . , 274

  That was Citizen Galgei . . . , 91

  The actress in exile, 614

  The age of my prosperity, 541

  The angels of Los Angeles . . . , 875

  The answer, see (1940) 6

  The apocalyptic horsemen, 522

  The army cook’s song, 1001

  The theatre communist, 260

  Theatre of emotions, 633

  The theatre of the new epoch . . . , 973

  The theatre, place of dreams, 920

  The ballad of Hannah Cash, 218

  The ballad of knowledge, 630

  The ballad of the Reichstag Fire, 464

  The ballad of the waterwheel, 504

  The bandit and his knave, 550

  The beam, 834

  The beggar, 7

  The beginning of war, 590

  The big blanket, 866

  The bird of death, see (Spring 1938) 3

  The birth in the tree . . . , 94

  The black woods go upwards . . . , 105

  The book burnings, 709

  The bosses say: peace and war, 654

  The brass, 655

  The bread and the little children, 165

  The bread of the hungry has been eaten, 652

  The bread of the people, 1028

  The breaking up of the ship, the Oskawa, by her crew, 687

  The broken rope . . . , 776

  The
Buddha’s parable of the burning house, 682

  The bull is strong . . . , 107

  The burning tree, 9

  The Caledonian Market, 494

  The cares of the Chancellor, 723

  The carpet weavers of Kujan-Bulak honour Lenin, 683

  The cattle march, 497

  The chalk cross, 509

  The Chancellor’s economics, 631

  The Chancellor’s gravel drive, 873

  The cherry thief, 789

  The child that wouldn’t wash, 665

  The cities, 288

  The cities are built for you . . . , 332

  The cities, the black-pox cities . . . , 279

  The city, 953

  The condemnation of classical ideals, 884

  The conquest of Austria, 638

  The consequences of playing safe, 759

  The crooked bow . . . , 772

  The crushing impact of the cities, 268

  The cultivation of millet, see Tschaganak Bersijew, or The cultivation of millet

  The dam, 519

  The days of all your bitternesses . . . , 74

  The dead colonial soldier, 262

  The Department of Literature, 1027

  The difficulty of governing, 711

  The discontents who acted . . . , 888

  The dispatched, 620

  The dispute Anno Domini 1938, 801

  The doctor, 510

  The dog, 1023

  The door, see (1940) 8

  The doubter, 627

  The dragon of the muddy black pond, 867

  The draughtsmen hunker . . . , see (1940) 3

  The drowned girl, 239

  The duration of the Third Reich, 727

  The eighth sonnet, 581

  The eleventh psalm, 61

  The eleventh sonnet, 579

  The emigrant’s lament, 757

  The emigration of the poets, 523

  The Emperor Napoleon and my friend the carpenter, 514

  The farmer looks after his fields, 474

  The farmer ploughs the field, 591

  The farmer’s address to his ox, 699

  The FDJ’s Song of rebuilding, 947

  The fears of the regime, 716

  The fifth sonnet, 576

  The fight against diabetes, 425

  The fine fork, 918

  The 1st psalm, 67

  The first sonnet, 573

  The fisherman’s tool, 886

  The flower garden, 1013

  The flower market, 866

  The fool, 10

  The forgotten, 11

  The 4th Psalm, 69

  The fourth sonnet, 575

  The friend, 7

  The friendliness of the world, 194

  The friends (I, the playwright . . .), 944

  The friends (If you came riding . . .), 865

  The Führer tells us . . . , 444

  The Führer will tell you . . . , 951

  The girl with the wooden leg, 262

  The girls under the village trees, 592

  The God is maggoty . . . , 1055

  The god of war, 799

  The good comrade M.S., 585

  The good times, 157

  The Gordian Knot, 287

 

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