Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Child of Europe
... Successor of Descartes, Spinoza, inheritor of the word 'honor', ...
On Prayer
... Where everything is just the opposite and the word 'is' ...
I Sleep a Lot
... When I couldn't do without cigarettes and coffee, I drove myself ...
Study Of Loneliness
... And he knew there was no use crying out, for none of them would save him ...
A Poem For the End of the Century
... Without creeds and utopias,I, for unknown reasons, ...
Not Mine
... All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mine ...
What Does It Mean
... That the so-called world opposed the so-called flesh ...
Statue of a Couple
... do we know now? In a heavy shipA helmman comes, throws a silken rope ...
Woe!
... It gathers honey of wisdom, carries it, stores it in honeycombs ...
And Yet The Books
... And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, ...
A Hall
... Color embraced me like the interior of a purple-brown flower ...
Magpiety
... The same and not quite the same, I walked through oak forests ...
A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto
... The roof and the wall collapse in flame and heat seizes the foundations ...
To Mrs. Professor In Defense Of My Cat's Honor And Not Only
... An earth of snakes and reptiles for millions of years ...
How It Was
... d for the Kingdom took refuge like me in the mountains to become the last heirs of a dishonored myth ...
