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W H Auden's Poetry, by first line

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  • We Too Had Known Golden Hours
    We, too, had known golden hours
    When body and soul were in tune,
    28 lines
  • As We Like It
    Certainly our city with its byres of poverty down to
    The river's edge, its cathedral, its engines, its dogs;
    30 lines
  • The Geography of the House
    (for Christopher Isherwood)
    Seated after breakfast
    80 lines, 1 comment
  • The Labyrinth
    Anthropos apteros for days
    Walked whistling round and round the Maze,
    56 lines
  • A New Age
    So an age ended, and its last deliverer died
    In bed, grown idle and unhappy; they were safe:
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Victor
    Victor was a little baby,
    Into this world he came;
    140 lines
  • Musee des Beaux Arts
    About suffering they were never wrong,
    The Old Masters: how well they understood
    21 lines
  • Ganymede
    He looked in all His wisdom from the throne
    Down on that humble boy who kept the sheep,
    14 lines
  • Kairos and Logos
    I
    Around them boomed the rhetoric of time,
    160 lines
  • We're Late
    Clocks cannot tell our time of day
    For what event to pray
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Atlantis
    Being set on the idea
    Of getting to Atlantis,
    84 lines
  • Are You There?
    Each lover has some theory of his own
    About the difference between the ache
    19 lines, 5 comments
  • Another Time
    For us like any other fugitive,
    Like the numberless flowers that cannot number
    20 lines
  • Canzone
    When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
    We cannot choose what we are free to love?
    65 lines
  • The Riddle
    Underneath the leaves of life,
    Green on the prodigious tree,
    60 lines
  • The Fall of Rome
    (for Cyril Connolly)
    The piers are pummelled by the waves;
    29 lines
  • The More Loving One
    Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
    That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
    16 lines
  • Villanelle
    Time can say nothing but I told you so,
    Time only knows the price we have to pay;
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • At the Party
    Unrhymed, unrythmical, the chatter goes:
    Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
    13 lines
  • They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden
    They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden:
    It taught them nothing new. They hid their pride,
    14 lines
  • Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue
    Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil?
    She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill,
    28 lines, 4 comments
  • For Friends Only
    (for John and Teckla Clark)
    Ours yet not ours, being set apart
    49 lines, 1 comment
  • At Last the Secret is Out
    At last the secret is out,
    as it always must come in the end,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • This Lunar Beauty
    This lunar beauty
    Has no history
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Give me a doctor
    Give me a doctor partridge-plump,
    Short in the leg and broad in the rump,
    8 lines
  • Base Words Are Uttered
    Base words are uttered only by the base
    And can for such at once be understood,
    6 lines
  • For What As Easy
    For what as easy
    For what thought small,
    18 lines
  • O Tell Me The Truth About Love
    Some say love's a little boy,
    And some say it's a bird,
    56 lines
  • Song Of The Master And Boatswain
    At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's
    We drank our liquor straight,
    18 lines
  • After Reading A Child's Guide To Modern Physics
    If all a top physicist knows
    About the Truth be true,
    48 lines, 2 comments
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