Bertolt Brecht's Poetry, by written

• From A German War Primer

  AMONGST THE HIGHLY PLACED
  It is considered low to talk about food.

  115 lines, 1 comment
• Contemplating Hell

  Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,
  My brother Shelley found it to be a place

  24 lines, 1 comment
• The Mask Of Evil

  On my wall hangs a Japanese carving,
  The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer.

  5 lines, 3 comments
• On Reading a Recent Greek Poet

  After the wailing had already begun
  along the walls, their ruin certain,

  6 lines
• O Germany, Pale Mother!

  Let others speak of her shame,
  I speak of my own.

  41 lines
• What Has Happened?

  The industrialist is having his aeroplane serviced.
  The priest is wondering what he said in his sermon eight weeks ago

  16 lines
• Not What Was Meant

  When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom
  Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats

  23 lines
• The Solution

  After the uprising of the 17th June
  The Secretary of the Writers Union

  10 lines
• To the Students of the Workers' and Peasants' Faculty

  So there you sit. And how much blood was shed
  That you might sit there. Do such stories bore you?

  12 lines
• On the Critical Attitude

  The critical attitude
  Strikes many people as unfruitful

  13 lines
• To Those Born After

  I
  To the cities I came in a time of disorder

  39 lines
• Radio Poem

  You little box, held to me escaping
  So that your valves should not break

  8 lines, 1 comment
• How Fortunate the Man with None

  From the play "Mother Courage"
  You saw sagacious Solomon

  41 lines
• To Posterity

  1.
  Indeed I live in the dark ages!

  74 lines, 2 comments
• Mack the Knife

  Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear
  And he shows them pearly white.

  24 lines, 2 comments
• Alabama Song

  Show me the way to the next whisky bar
  Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why

  45 lines
• To Be Read in the Morning and at Night

  My love
  Has told me

  8 lines
• I Never Loved You More

  I never loved you more, ma soeur
  Than as I walked away from you that evening.

  12 lines
• Send Me a Leaf

  Send me a leaf, but from a bush
  That grows at least one half hour

  5 lines
• Parting

  We embrace.
  Rich cloth under my fingers

  9 lines
• I'm Not Saying Anything Against Alexander

  Timur, I hear, took the trouble to conquer the earth.
  I don't understand him.

  13 lines
• I Want To Go With The One I Love...

  [Original]
  Ich will mit dem gehen, den ich liebe.

  12 lines
• Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt...

  [Original]
  Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt, ma soeur

  26 lines
• To Read in the Morning and at Night...

  [Original]
  Morgens und abends zu lesen

  20 lines
• United Front Song

  And because a man is human
  He'll want to eat, and thanks a lot

  27 lines
• I Want To Go With The One I Love

  I want to go with the one I love.
  I do not want to calculate the cost.

  5 lines
• A Worker Reads History

  Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
  The books are filled with names of kings.

  29 lines
• Elogio al Aprendizaje

  ¡Aprende las cosas elementarias!
  ¡Para aquellos a quienes les ha llegado la hora nunca es demasadio tarde!

  24 lines
• Der Pflaumenbaum (The Plum Tree, translation)

  Im Hofe steht ein Pflaumenbaum,
  Der ist so klein, man glaubt es kaum.

  46 lines
• About the Seduction of an Angel (Translation with original German)

  Über die Verführung von Engeln
  Engel verführt man gar nicht oder schnell.

  35 lines

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