(29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998 / Lvov)

poet Zbigniew Herbert
#427 on top 500 poets

Poems of Zbigniew Herbert

21. Objects 1/3/2003
22. Our Fear 4/21/2010
23. Pebble 1/3/2003
24. Prayer of Pan Cogito – Traveller 12/29/2011
25. Report From Paradise 4/21/2010
26. Report from the Besieged City 1/3/2003
27. Rovigo 12/29/2011
28. The Ardennes Forest 1/3/2003
29. The Envoy of Mr Cogito 1/3/2003
30. The Fable About a Nail 12/29/2011
31. The Monster of Mr Cogito 1/3/2003
32. The Power of Taste 12/29/2011
33. The Rain 4/21/2010
34. The Return of the Proconsul 12/29/2011
35. The Tongue 12/29/2011
36. The Trial 1/3/2003
37. Three poems by heart 1/3/2003
38. To My Bones 4/21/2010
39. Wasp 12/29/2011
40. What Our Dead Do 12/29/2011

A Knocker

There are those who grow
gardens in their heads
paths lead from their hair
to sunny and white cities

it's easy for them to write
they close their eyes
immediately schools of images
stream down their foreheads

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