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The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

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by Tom Kuhn


  The government as artist, 726

  The great chorale of thanksgiving, 203

  The great day when I am become useless, 1048

  The great guilt of the Jews, 542

  The great October, 692

  The greenhouse, 1041

  The guest, 286

  The guns are silent . . . , 954

  The hat, presented to the poet by Li Chien, 872

  The heaven of the disappointed, 27

  The hell of the disenchanters, 495

  The hole in Ilyich’s boot, 544

  The homecoming of Odysseus, 598

  The hopeful!, 473

  The housepainter gets us to build him a battleship . . . , 597

  The housepainter says, 591

  The housepainter speaks of the great times that are coming, 653

  The housepainter will say that distant lands are being conquered, 658

  The houses of misfortune, 470

  The improvements of the regime, 715

  The infanticide Marie Farrar, 168

  The inquiry, 516

  The Internationale, 446

  The invincible inscription, 685

  The Jew, a misfortune for the Volk, 725

  The jobless, 379

  The Koloman Wallisch Cantata, 525

  The labour of the great Babel, 798

  The landowners’ roundelay, 508

  The last request, 545

  The leaves of every tree . . . , 363

  The legend of the whore Evlyn Roe, 28

  The legend of Widow Queck, 599

  The Liebestod ballad, 240

  The losses, 836

  The loudspeaker, 781

  The lovely blue of his beloved skies . . . , 128

  The madam’s song, 507

  The maid’s song, 1024

  The making of long-lasting works, 373

  The man who fears transience, 565

  The man who took me in . . . , 1005

  The march on Berlin, 521

  The mask of the angry one, 863

  The master race, 843

  The memory, 7

  The men of the sea, 20

  The Moscow workers take possession of the great Metro on 27 April 1935, 689

  The mother, 79

  The mother’s name, 14

  The muses, 1021

  Then at the last, when death . . . , 820

  The necessity of propaganda, 713

  The negroes sing chorales over the Himalayas, 83

  The neighbour, 511

  The new Don Quixote, 603

  The new sweat cloth, 887

  The new tongue, 1015

  The ninth sonnet, 578

  Then I was back in Buckow . . . , 1022

  The not-to-be-forgotten night, 570

  The Nuremberg Trial, 917

  The offended party, 72

  The old, 591

  The old man in spring, 77

  The Old Man of Downing Street (1944), 932

  The old ways, still, 1014

  The one-armed man among the trees, 1017

  The opium smoker, 259

  The pace of socialist reconstruction, 691

  The painter’s (presumptive) answer, 645

  The parting, 626

  The party is in danger, 411

  The passenger, 563

  The people live on . . . , 952

  The people say . . . , 814

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

  The play is over . . . , 895

  The plum song, 944

  The plum tree, 666

  The politician, 867

  The poor man’s pound, 470

  The poor man’s song, 933

  The poorer pupils from the suburbs, 629

  The power of the workers, 524

  The prisoner’s dreams, 632

  The procession in Capri, 151

  The prodigal son, 97

  The rag-and-bone-man, 364

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

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

  There at the beginning . . . , 127

  There is no greater crime than leaving . . . , 454

  The representation of past and present in one, 616

  The revolutionary soldier’s luck, 588

  There was a voice close by you . . . , 431

  The riddle, 370

  The river sings praises . . . , 95

  The roll call of the vices and the virtues, 799

  The Roman Emperor Nero . . . , 513

  The rulers, 954

  The scripture says . . . , 807

  The second beat, 615

  The 2nd Psalm, 68. See also Psalm 2

  The second sonnet, 574

  The seduced girls, 238

  These lost sight of themselves . . . , 89

  The Service Train, 710

  The seven lives of literature, 1022

  The seventh psalm, 57

  The seventh sonnet, 577

  The ship, 171

  The shipwrecked sailor’s report, 131

  The siblings-tree, 37

  The sick Communist’s answer to the comrades, 702

  The sinners in hell, 249

  The sixth sonnet, 577

  The sky this summer, 1020

  The snowstorm, see Spring 1938

  The solution, 1013

  The song of fraternization, 816

  The song of St Neverever Day, 809

  The song of Surabaya-Johnny, 282

  The song of the Moldau, 884

  The song of the roses of the Shipka Pass, 145

  The song of the SA man, 421

  The song of the Saar, 492

  The song of the sickle, 501

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

  The song of your pound and our pound, 625

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

  The stone fisher, 798

  The summer in Sörnäs, 782

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

  The swamp, 934

  The teach-me-better, 803

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

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

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

  The theatre communist, 260

  The theatre of the new epoch . . . , 973

  The theatre, place of dreams, 920

  The third sonnet, 575

  The thirteenth sonnet, 580

  The thrift of the rich, 358

  The tomb of the unknown soldier of the revolution, 562

  The top beasts, 456

  The top brass are saying:, 656

  The top brass say: in the army, 657

  The tough grey goose, 930

  The town of Hollywood has taught me this . . . , 876

  The Tsar spoke to them . . . , 1054

  The trowel, 641

  The twelfth sonnet. On Dante’s poems to Beatrice, 580

  The 21st sonnet, 818

  The twig of blossom . . . , 1005

  The typhoon, 834

  The unemployment, gentlemen . . . , 401

  The village of Hollywood is designed according to the image . . . , 874

  The virginia smoker, 78

  The virtues of the Chancellor, 620

  The voice of the October storm . . . , 1022

  The voluntary watch, 887

  The war dog, 831

  The warlike schoolmaster, 968

  The war that is coming, 656

  The way down!, 378

  The weights on the balance . . . , 1055

  The willow pipe, 782

  The workers cry out for bread., 653

  The world reverberates . . . , 859

  The writer feels betrayed by a friend, 918

  They have gone by . . . , 106

  They opened the door in t
he night . . . , 487

  The young and the Third Reich, 719

  The young people sit bent over their books, 592

  The youth and the maiden (Chastity ballad in a major key), 51

  They sawed off the branches, 568

  Things you need to know, 150

  Thinking about Hell . . . , 838

  A thinking man soon knows . . . , 284

  The third sonnet, 575

  The thirteenth sonnet, 580

  This Babylonian confusion of the words . . . , 289

  This is the year . . . , 772

  This morning early, Easter Sunday . . . , see Spring 1938

  This natural thing, work . . . , 522

  Those two, 6

  Those who died for us on Warsaw’s walls . . . , 1068

  Those who fought against their own people, 592

  Those who protested . . . , 593

  Those who take the meat from the table, 653

  Thought in the works of the classics, 598

  Thoughts before the photograph of Therese Meier, 114

  Thoughts of a gramophone owner, 146

  Thoughts of a stripper while she strips, 547

  Thoughts on the duration of exile, 731

  Thoughts whilst flying over the Great Wall, 871

  Three hundred murdered coolies report to the Comintern, 281

  The thrift of the rich, 358

  Through shattered ribs . . . , 952

  Through the room the wild wind comes . . . , 86

  Through the ruins of Luisenstrasse . . . , 954

  Time and again . . . (In the wild fray . . .), 860

  Time and again . . . (When I walk through the cities . . .), 854

  Tirelessly . . . , 606

  Tirelessly the Thinker praises . . . , 439

  To a colleague who stayed in the theatre during the summer break, 1037

  To a poet-friend about his Deutschland poems, 643

  To a stadium, 572

  To be read mornings and evenings, 609

  3. To Chronos, 312

  To Karl, 348

  To M, 120

  To my compatriots, 955

  To my Danish refuge, 792

  To my friend, the painter, 943

  To my friend, the painter (2), 943

  To my little radio, 804

  To my son, 153

  To R., 969

  To the actor P.L. in exile, 964

  To the German soldiers in the East, 843

  To the producers and audience of The Lindbergh Flight, 956

  To the waverer, 694

  To those born after, 734

  To those who have been brought into line, 695

  To Walter Benjamin who, fleeing from Hitler, took his own life, 835

  The top beasts, 456

  The top brass are saying:, 656

  The top brass say: in the army, 657

  The tough grey goose, 930

  The town builder, from the Visions, 907

  The town of Hollywood has taught me this . . . , 876

  Train journey. 19th Psalm, 66

  The trowel, 641

  True, out of the cranny . . . , 280

  Truth unites, 1018

  The Tsar spoke to them . . . , 1054

  Tschaganak Bersijew, or The cultivation of millet, 974

  The twelfth sonnet. On Dante’s poems to Beatrice, 580

  The 21st sonnet, 818

  The twig of blossom . . . , 1005

  Two questions, 540

  Two times two is four . . . , 1053

  The typhoon, 834

  Ulm 1592, 664

  Unascertainable errors of the Bureau for the Arts, 1028

  Uncle Eddie, 966

  Under the sign of the tortoise, 859

  The unemployment, gentlemen . . . , 401

  Unhappy occurrence, 1008

  Unless I am forced to . . . , 951

  Valse plus triste, 778

  The village of Hollywood is designed according to the image . . . , 874

  The virginia smoker, 78

  The virtues of the Chancellor, 620

  Vision in white. 1st Psalm, 53

  Visit to the banished poets, 681

  The voice of the October storm . . . , 1022

  The voluntary watch, 887

  W.B., 835

  Wait till the tree is mighty . . . , 389

  Walking next to the loathsome, the virtuous . . . , 539

  Wandering this way and that . . . , 961

  The war dog, 831

  War has been brought into disrepute, 916

  War is made by humankind, 986

  War song, 486

  The war that is coming, 656

  The warlike schoolmaster, 968

  The war that is coming, 656

  War, they say, is well prepared, 720

  Washing, 619

  The way down!, 378

  We ask that he too show his naked body . . . , 291

  We drove, we six . . . , 895

  We fly over the mountains . . . , 967

  We have made a mistake, 476

  We sixty pent in a barn . . . , 953

  We unhappy wretches!, 540

  We wanted a place to live . . . , 409

  Weaknesses, 970

  Wedekind’s funeral, 36

  Weigel’s props, 771

  What are tanks?, 441

  What are these people like?, 440

  What are you still waiting for?, 425

  What kind, what breed are we . . . , 1034

  What Orge wants, 1050

  What subverts, 539

  What the children ask for, 997

  What the Führer does not know, 722

  What use is goodness . . . , 560

  What was mountain about you . . . , 488

  Whatever next?, 606

  Whatever your name . . . , 863

  When at her look the violet light had fled . . . , 82

  When Comrade Dimitrov stood before the court . . . , 499

  When he came to fetch her . . . , 608

  When Heigei Gei . . . , 98

  When I am lying in my churchyard grave, 814

  When I came back from Saint-Nazaire . . . , 856

  When I came home again . . . , 946

  When I have to leave you dear . . . , 1045

  When I left you, afterwards . . . , 987

  When I read that they were burning the works . . . , 469

  10. When I speak to you . . . , 319

  When I told them . . . , 625

  When I was driven into exile, 468

  When I was robbed . . . , 857

  When I’d reported to the couple, thus . . . , 749

  When in my hospital ward . . . , 1071

  When it became necessary to ask the question . . . , 429

  When it comes to marching, many do not know, 657

  When it is fun with you . . . , 988

  When our cities lay in ruins . . . , 957

  When our Lord Jesus . . . , 279

  When over the loudspeakers the housepainter talks of peace, 654

  When she was done for . . . , 107

  When the city lay dead . . . , 957

  When the drummer begins his war, 659

  When the incorruptible lawyer . . . , 512

  When the Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann granted the Americans and English the right to chastise the German people for ten long years for the crimes of the Hitler regime, 881

  When the no-season evening . . . , 862

  When the sixteen-year-old seamstress Emma Ries . . . , 548

  When the stone says . . . , 608

  When the stormwinds fall . . . , 1034

  When the Thinker became fearful . . . , 428

  When the Thinker had asked the question . . . , 426

  When the top brass speak of peace, 655

  When the war begins, 658

  When we came down into the Third Reich . . . , 600

  When we came to Milano . . . , 812

  When we had been apart . . . , 584

&n
bsp; When winter comes . . . , 392

  When years ago . . . , 549

  When, in the age of the housepainter . . . , 640

  Where are you going?, 422

  A whore who’s so inclined, sir . . . , 370

  Who wants to be a soldier . . . , 292

  Who will teach the teacher?, 512

  Why do I eat bread . . . ?, 322

  Why should my name be spoken?, see I used to think: in far off times

  Why should we be ashamed of you . . . , 489

  Willem’s palace, 969

  Willingly take . . . , 390

  The willow pipe, 782

  Winter, 359

  With dismay, however . . . , 636

  Wood, 1037

  Words that the Führer cannot bear to hear, 723

  Workers, 4

  The workers cry out for bread., 653

  A worker’s speech to a doctor, 700

  Working with particular gestures, 480

  Workroom, 886

  The world reverberates . . . , 859

  Wreckage, 821

  The writer feels betrayed by a friend, 918

  Years ago in that bygone ark of mine . . . , 117

  Yes we may still . . . , 1033

  Yes, friends, now the grass is all eaten up . . . , 264

  Yes, from time to time I follow . . . , 639

  Yet a long while we watched him rowing . . . , 517

  You appear . . . , 1042

  You are exhausted after long hours of work . . . , 1006

  You coming from just having eaten . . . , 381

  You have gone quiet, comrade . . . , 487

  You must never slough off from the peasant . . . , 923

  You see world war approaching, 546

  You who are so much . . . , 499

  You who believed you were fleeing . . . , 475

  You, a man seeing the indispensable . . . , 332

  You, sitting there in the bow of the boat, 730

  Young and helpless arriving in the cities . . . , 340

  The young and the Third Reich, 719

  Young man on the escalator, 855

  The young people sit bent over their books, 592

  Your deeds will not be approved . . . , 892

  Youth, 959

  The youth and the maiden (Chastity ballad in a major key), 51

  Zehr and Patschek. A moral tale, 450

  Ziffel’s song, 780

  INDEX OF GERMAN TITLES AND FIRST LINES

  Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

  1. Brief an die Hettenbacher, 403

  4. Brief an die Hettenbacher, 404

  6. Psalm, 56

  10. Psalm, 60

  12. Psalm, 62

  19. Sonett. Begegnung mit den elfenbeinernen Wächtern, 584

  700 Intellektuelle beten einen Öltank an, 320

  (1940) 1, 789

  (1940) 2, 790

  (1940) 3, 790

  (1940) 4, 790

  (1940) 5, 791

  (1940) 6, 791

 

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