The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

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  The fears of the regime, 716

  Fellow humans, 184

  Few words, 950

  The fifth sonnet, 576

  2. Fifth wheel, 311

  The fight against diabetes, 425

  A film by Charlie Chaplin, 902

  Finding a use for everything, 958

  The fine fork, 918

  Finnish folksong, 783

  Finnish landscape, 805

  Finnish larder 1940, 793

  Finnish workers . . . , 852

  Fir trees, 1019

  First calendar song, 1026

  The 1st psalm, 67

  The first sonnet, 573

  First was joy . . . , 1069

  The fisherman’s tool, 886

  Five long years . . . , 906

  Flameproof painting, 635

  The flower garden, 1013

  The flower market, 866

  Fog envelops . . . , see (1940) 4

  The fool, 10

  For Paul Éluard, 1066

  For the cultivation of winter wheat . . . , 1055

  For the dependable . . . , 644

  For the grave of Li Po, 940

  Foreign policy ballad, 469

  The forgotten, 11

  Fortress Europe, 759

  Four invitations to a man from different sides at different times, 318

  The 4th Psalm, 69

  The fourth sonnet, 575

  Freedom and Democracy, 935

  Freight. 3rd Psalm, 55

  French peasants, 17

  The friend, 7

  The friendliness of the world, 194

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

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

  From a flat to a bed-sit . . . , 423

  From my refuge beneath the Danish thatch, my friends . . . , 651

  From the Reader for City Dwellers, 309

  Fruitless call, 612

  The Führer will tell you . . . , 951

  Full of innocence she lay . . . , 73

  Garden in progress, 896

  General, your tank is a powerful thing., 657

  German Miserere, 880

  German sell-out, 149

  German song (They’re talking again of great times . . .), 660

  German song (When the hard rain of bombs . . .), 959

  German War Primer, 590

  Germany (Indoors there’s death . . .), 917

  Germany (One night of storm . . .), 858

  Germany 1952, 1006

  Germany, you blonde pale land . . . , 102

  Gethsemane, 11

  The girl with the wooden leg, 262

  The girls under the village trees, 592

  A glass of water for Comrade Alfred!, 566

  Go!, 481

  The god of war, 799

  God preserve us, 667

  God’s vespers, 70

  Golden fruits hang . . . , 14

  The good comrade M.S., 585

  The good times, 157

  The Gordian Knot, 287

  The government as artist, 726

  Granted, the Browning was found . . . , 606

  Grass and peppermint, 99

  The great chorale of thanksgiving, 203

  The great day when I am become useless, 1048

  The great guilt of the Jews, 542

  Great men, 278

  The great October, 692

  Great times, wasted, 1016

  The greenhouse, 1041

  Growing in the citron light . . . , 75

  The guest, 286

  The guns are silent . . . , 954

  Guns before butter, 718

  Habitual loving, 583

  Half in my sleep . . . , 76

  Hammer and sickle song, 496

  Hands off the Soviet Union!, 454

  Hans Lody, 13

  A happy encounter, 1006

  A happy occurrence, 1007

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

  6. He strolled down the street . . . , 316

  He was easy to get . . . , 325

  He was employed in the Institute . . . , 39

  He who but imitates . . . , 922

  He who learns, 564

  The heaven of the disappointed, 27

  Heh. 9th Psalm, 59

  The hell of the disenchanters, 495

  Here I am on the small island of Lidingö . . . , see (1940) 5

  Here is the map . . . , 1043

  Here is the river . . . , 400

  Here stood the ancient Moors . . . , 388

  The hole in Ilyich’s boot, 544

  Hollywood Elegies, 874

  Homecoming, 881

  The homecoming of Odysseus, 598

  The hopeful!, 473

  Hoppeldoppel Wopp’s louse, 605

  Hot day, 1015

  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

  How can the voice . . . , 402

  How capable human beings are!, 424

  How future ages will judge our writers, 752

  How it was, 1070

  How should I write immortal works . . . , 603

  However ill they treat you . . . , 594

  However that may be, there was a time . . . , 42

  However, if you want my opinion, gentlemen . . . , 363

  Hubris. 2nd Psalm, 54

  Hymn to God, 28

  I always executed . . . , 558

  I always thought . . . , 434

  I am absolutely certain . . . , 124

  I am beginning to speak about death . . . , 110

  I am his enemy . . . , 425

  5. I am scum . . . , 314

  I am the god of fortune . . . , 839

  I am the patron . . . , 908

  I asked myself: why talk to them?, 837

  I don’t know . . . , 383

  I have heard you won’t learn . . . , 454

  I have no need of a gravestone . . . , 483

  I hear . . . , 263

  I hear you say . . . , 335

  4. I know what I need . . . , 313

  I like hearing the tally of my rights . . . , 365

  I read of the tank battle, 805

  I saw a bowl of soup once . . . , 380

  I saw it still . . . , 933

  I saw twenty-year-olds . . . , 892

  I searched long for the truth . . . , 463

  I shall go with the one I love . . . , 809

  I thought your home . . . , 498

  I told him to move out . . . , 335

  I used to think . . . , 123

  I used to think: in far-off times . . . , 571

  I wait, brother . . . , 989

  I was sad when I was young . . . , 1049

  I, Berthold Brecht . . . , 45

  I, the survivor, 877

  If all the smoke in the world, 963

  If the Jews did not counsel against it . . . , 543

  If there were a wind, 1013

  If we lasted forever, 1048

  If what is should endure . . . , 602

  If you had read the newspapers attentively . . . , 323

  I’m not saying Rockefeller is a stupid man . . . , 322

  The improvements of the regime, 715

  In a former time I was the curving pair . . . , 773

  In dark times, 623

  In favour of a long wide skirt, 906

  In flight from my countrymen, see (1940) 8

  In front of the whitewashed wall . . . , see (1940) 7

  In long years of study, 569

  In pale white smoke . . . , 858

  In praise of forgetting, 646

  In praise of the Third Thing, 412

  In praise of the Vlassovas, 416

  In saying yes . . . , 925

  In the bath, 804

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nbsp; In the beginning, in my childhood, 115

  In the calendar the day is not yet marked., 653

  In the chophouse and the drawing room . . . , 372

  In the city of Tehran . . . , 971

  In the dark time . . . , 482

  In the dark times, 660

  In the early hours of the new day . . . , 894

  In the enjoyment of his leisure . . . , 92

  In the higher echelons, 652

  In the hills there’s gold . . . , 876

  In the natural shyness of children . . . , 922

  In the ninth year fleeing from Hitler . . . , 822

  In the second year of my flight . . . , 545

  In the sixth year, 904

  In the willows by the sound . . . , see (Spring 1938) 3

  In this country, I hear . . . , 841

  In times of extreme persecution, 776

  In view of the circumstances in this city, 840

  In war many things will increase . . . , 593

  The infanticide Marie Farrar, 168

  The inquiry, 516

  Inscription on an uncollected tombstone, 366

  Inscription on Liebknecht’s grave, 947

  Inscription on Luxemburg’s tomb, 947

  Instruction in love, 909

  Interim reports to the mission stations, 111

  The Internationale, 446

  Interrogation of the good man, 569

  Intervention, 765

  The invincible inscription, 685

  Iron, 1016

  Is every sentence . . . ?, 1030

  It is better to live . . . , 1007

  It is night, 592

  It was early in life I learnt . . . , 776

  It was on us, not England, they wrote finis, 952

  It would not take much, 367

  It’s not the cancer that’s subdued . . . , 472

  Jeppe Karl, 157

  The Jew, a misfortune for the Volk, 725

  Jews, 951

  The jobless, 379

  Journey from the land of freedom into the land of oppression, 567

  Joyously to eat of meat . . . , 1043

  Karl Hollmann’s Song, 112

  Keep your thoughts away from everything . . . , 872

  Kin-Jeh said of his sister, 607

  Kin-Jeh’s second poem about his sister, 610

  Kin-jeh’s song about the abstemious Chancellor, 605

  Kite song, 965

  The Koloman Wallisch Cantata, 525

  The labour of the great Babel, 798

  Lala, 150

  Lament for the dead 1941, see To the German soldiers in the East

  Lampoon, 1000

  The landowners’ roundelay, 508

  Landscape in Flanders, see (1940) 4

  Landscape of exile, 879

  Last hope, 281

  Last love song, 611

  Last meal, 424

  Last night I saw the Great Hag . . . , 961

  The last request, 545

  Laughton’s belly, 896

  The leaves of every tree . . . , 363

  Legality, 909

  Legend of Holy Saturday, 15

  Legend of Malchus, the pig in love, 190

  Legend of the dead soldier, 243

  Legend of the origin of the book Tao Te Ching on Lao-tze’s road into exile, 678

  The legend of the whore Evlyn Roe, 28

  The legend of Widow Queck, 599

  A lesson in sabotage, 435

  8. Let go of your dreams . . . , 318

  Let him have no excuse . . . , 390

  Let the grass too have meaning . . . , 101

  Let us assume you are weak like one . . . , 429

  Letter to the actor Charles Laughton concerning the work on the play Life of Galileo, 931

  Letter to the playwright Clifford Odets, 562

  Letter to the workers’ theatre “Theatre Union” in New York concerning the play The Mother, 552

  Letters from mothers to their children in foreign parts, 773

  Letters on recent reading, 900

  The Liebestod ballad, 240

  Lightly, as if never touching the ground . . . , 919

  Li-gung’s great speech about the punishment the gods decreed for the not-eating of meat, 764

  Like a robber, 593

  Literature will be searched through, see How future ages will judge our writers

  Little begging song, 665

  Little clouds from time to time . . . , 769

  Little song, 48

  Little songs for Steff, 516

  Liturgy of breath, 174

  Long before, 889

  Loose body, 616

  Loss of a valuable person, 486

  The losses, 836

  The loudspeaker, 781

  Love of the Führer, 721

  Love poem, 264

  Love song, 39

  Lovely . . . , 971

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

  Lovesong from a bad time, 1044

  Lullabies, 418

  Lupu Pick and Manke Pansche, 140

  The madam’s song, 507

  Mahagonny song No. 1, 229

  Mahagonny song No. 2, 230

  Mahagonny song No. 3, 231

  The maid’s song, 1024

  Make up, 616

  The making of long-lasting works, 373

  A man of sense . . . , 324

  The man who fears transience, 565

  The man who took me in . . . , 1005

  Man with the threadbare coat:, 656

  Mankeboddel Bol, 96

  Many are in favour of order . . . , 471

  Many spoke of the war . . . , 760

  Mao’s song, see Ni-en’s song

  March, 121

  The march on Berlin, 521

  Marked generations, 890

  Marriage banns of Goliath, issued by the Philistines, 623

  A martyr has his say, 35

  Mary, 137

  The mask of the angry one, 863

  The master race, 843

  Masters of their craft buy cheaply, 988

  Matinee in Dresden, 275

  Medea from Łódź, 514

  Memorial for four thousand drowned in Hitler’s war against Norway, 794

  Memorial for the fallen in Hitler’s war against France, 793

  Memories, 109

  The memory, 7

  The men of the sea, 20

  Metamorphosis of the gods, 893

  A modern legend, 12

  Money, 273

  Morning address to the tree, Green, 180

  Morning on Mount Ararat, 71

  Morning twilight, 638

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

  Mother Germer’s sons, 550

  The mother, 79

  The mother’s name, 14

  Mothers of the missing, 21

  Motto, 787

  Murder, 1067

  The muses, 1021

  My brother was a pilot, 666

  My brother’s death, 95

  My dear Bez, 80

  My general has fallen . . . , 822

  My love gave me a little branch . . . , 987

  My one and only, 1049

  My pipes, 805

  My seasons, 777

  My young son asks me: should I learn mathematics . . . ?, see (1940) 6

  Nanna’s song, 501

  Napoleon, 537

  Nature poems 1, 751

  Nature poems 2, 752

  The necessity of propaganda, 713

  Need for art, 304

  The negroes sing chorales over the Himalayas, 83

  The neighbour, 511

  Never have I loved you as I did then, ma soeur . . . , 88

  The new Don Quixote, 603

  New epochs, 893

  A new house, 955

  The new sweat cloth, 887

  The new tongue, 1015

  New Year of the persecuted, 478

  Ni-en’s song, 601

 
; Night in Nyborg . . . , 885

  The ninth sonnet, 578

  No sooner had he finished speaking . . . , 361

  None or all, 668

  Not meant like that, 1029

  Not so we’ll hate one another . . . , 1007

  Note of what’s needed, 763

  The not-to-be-forgotten night, 570

  Now in the night . . . , 126

  Now the instrument is out of tune . . . , 643

  Now the war is at its bloodiest . . . , 412

  Now we are refugees in Finland., 770

  Now, however, that humanity, in its unending progress . . . , 518

  Now, oh fearing for our lives . . . , 821

  Now, Timon, misanthrope . . . , 772

  The Nuremberg Trial, 917

  O joy of beginning!, 925

  O Venice, city of dreams . . . , 1025

  O you great trees there in the hollow places . . . , 87

  Ode to a High Dignitary, 832

  Ode to my father, 76

  Of all works, 449

  Of young Pumm, who always had to laugh, 636

  The offended party, 72

  Often at night I dream . . . , 337

  Oh Falada, hanging there!, 437

  Oh how I saw them once . . . , 962

  Oh my youthful days . . . , 129

  Oh the unheard-of-possibilities . . . , 40

  Oh they are the nicest people . . . , 396

  Oh you can’t know what I suffer . . . , 34

  Oh, we had a ball back in Uganda . . . , 272

  The old, 591

  The old man in spring, 77

  The Old Man of Downing Street (1944), 932

  Old Mother Beimlen, 267

  The old ways, still, 1014

  Old woman outside the church, 561

  On a Chinese tea-root lion, 1002

  On bourgeois belief, 894

  On climbing in trees, 197

  On Dante’s poems to Beatrice, 741. See also The twelfth sonnet. On Dante’s poems to Beatrice

  On empathy, 926

  On exertion, 196

  On François Villon, 181

  On Germany, 760

  On Goethe’s poem ‘The God and the Bayadere,’ 745

  On hearing the news of the Tory blood baths in Greece, 899

  On hearing the news that a great statesman has fallen ill, 905

  On inductive love, 748

  On inequality. Hard though it is to uncover it, 919

  On judgement, 633

  On Kant’s definition of marriage in his Metaphysics of Morals, 743

  On Kleist’s play The Prince of Homburg, 746

  On Lenz’s bourgeois tragedy The Tutor, 743

  On luck, 769

  On Nature’s complaisance, 284

  On reading a modern Greek poet, 1019

  On reading a Soviet book, 1021

  On reading Horace, 1020

  On Schiller’s poem ‘The Bell,’ 744

  On Schiller’s poem ‘The Bond,’ 745

  On seriousness in art, 990

  On Shakespeare’s Hamlet, 742

  On swimming in lakes and rivers, 198

  On teaching without pupils, 568

  On the birth of a son, 699

 

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