The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Seifert, Jaroslav -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Booktitle Copyright Copyright Contents Pronunciation Guide Introduction City in Tears (MěSto V SlzáCh, 1921)

Opening Poem Sinful City

Nothing But Love (Sarná LáSka, 1923)

A Song about Girls

Honeymoon (Svatební Cesta, 1925)

Red-Hot Fruit Honeymoon Philosophy The Fan

The Nightingale Sings Badly (SlavíK ZpíVá šPatně, 1926)

Moscow Apple Tree with Cobweb Strings Panorama

Carrier Pigeon (PošTovní Holub, 1929)

Dance of the Girls’ Chemises Song Prague Wet Picture November 1918

An Apple From Your Lap (Jablko Z KlíNa, 1933)

Parting The Wax Candle A Hundred Times Nothing Dialogue Funeral Under My Window Transformations

The Hands of Venus (Ruce VenušIny, 1936)

The Year 1934 The Hands of Venus

Songs for the Rotary Press (ZpíVáNo Do RotačKy, 1936)

Spanish Vineyards Salute to the Madrid Barricades

Good-Bye, Spring (Jaro, Sbohem, 1937)

You Have Skin Pale like a Snowdrop

Robed in Light (SvěRlem OděNá, 1940)

Robed in Light (First Canto)

A Helmetful of Earth (Přílba HlíNy, 1945)

Song of the Native Land To Prague At the Tomb of the Czech Kings When in the History Books The Dead of Lidice

Concert on the Island (Koncert Na Ostrově, 1965)

How Painful I Would Find It Lovers, Those Evening Pilgrims Sometimes We Are Tied down If One Could Tell One’s Heart Reluctant Whispers of Kissed Lips Song of the Sweepings A Song at the End

Halley’s Comet (Halleyova Kometa, 1967)

Halley’s Comet St George’s Basilica The Dome of the Observatory

The Casting of the Bells (OdléVáNí Zvonů, 1967)

Prologue Once Only If You Call Poetry

the Plague Column (Mororỳ Sloup, 1978)

At One of His Readings The Cry of the Spectres Place of Pilgrimage Canal Gardens The Plague Column Merry-Go-Round with White Swan A Chaplet of Sage The Model Nocturnal Darkness The Striking of the Tower Clock Birds’ Voices in the Tree Tops In an Empty Room The Song of the Nightingale The Smoke of Marijuana And Now Goodbye

An Umbrella From Piccadilly (DešTníK Z Piccadilly, 1979)

Autobiography The Hunt for the Kingfisher Fingerprints Silence Full of Sleighbells The Head of the Virgin Mary Mr. KröSing’s Top Hat A Garland on the Wrist Lost Paradise Window on Birds’ Wings Berthe Soucaret The Mistress of Poets A Visit to the Painter VladimíR KomáRek A Prospect of Prague Lunar Ironmongery Struggle with the Angel An Umbrella From Piccadilly The Royal Pavilion November Rain Fragment of a Letter Four Small Windows The Grave of Signor Casanova

to Be a Poet (BýTi BáSnikem, 1983)

To Be a Poet The Bombing of the Town of Kralupy Verses From an Old Tapestry A Bach Concerto Nocturnal Divertimento View From Charles Bridge Our Lady of ŽIžKov The Relay Tower Demolition Report Song From an Intermezzo

Uncollected

Lines for the Painter Ota JanečEk

All the Beauties of the World (Reminiscences; VšEcky KráSy SvěTa, 1981)

On My Parents The Schoolboy and the Prostitute How I Became a Poet Publication of My Third Book On HašEkj Author of the Good Soldier ŠVejk A Day in the Country On Teige: A Danse Macabre in SmíChov A Few Minutes before Execution: May 1945 A Meeting after the War An Interview about the Art of Writing

Glossary of Names and Places Notes to Introduction Notes to Poems Notes to Reminiscences