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W H Auden's Poetry, by title

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  • 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
  • A New Year Greeting
        On this day tradition allots
            to taking stock of our lives,
    61 lines, 1 comment
  • A Walk After Dark
    A cloudless night like this
    Can set the spirit soaring:
    48 lines
  • Academic Graffiti
    Henry Adams
    Was mortally afraid of Madams:
    20 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
  • Another Time
    For us like any other fugitive,
    Like the numberless flowers that cannot number
    20 lines
  • Are You There?
    Each lover has some theory of his own
    About the difference between the ache
    19 lines, 5 comments
  • As I Walked Out One Evening
    As I walked out one evening,
      Walking down Bristol Street,
    73 lines
  • As I Walked Out One Evening
    As I walked out one evening,
    Walking down Bristol Street,
    73 lines, 1 comment
  • As the poets have mournfully sung
    As the poets have mournfully sung,
    Death takes the innocent young,
    4 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
  • At Last the Secret is Out
    At last the secret is out,
    as it always must come in the end,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • At the Party
    Unrhymed, unrythmical, the chatter goes:
    Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
    13 lines
  • Atlantis
    Being set on the idea
    Of getting to Atlantis,
    84 lines
  • August 1968
    The Ogre does what ogres can,
    Deeds quite impossible for Man,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Autumn Song
        Now the leaves are falling fast,
        Nurse's flowers will not last;
    23 lines
  • Base Words Are Uttered
    Base words are uttered only by the base
    And can for such at once be understood,
    6 lines
  • Calypso
    Driver drive faster and make a good run
    Down the Springfield Line under the shining sun.
    28 lines
  • Canzone
    When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
    We cannot choose what we are free to love?
    65 lines
  • Carry Her Over the Water
    Carry her over the water,
        And set her down under the tree,
    16 lines
  • Christmas Oratio
    Well, so that is that.  Now we must dismantle the tree,
    Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes --
    52 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
  • Consider This And In Our Time
    As the hawk sees it or the helmeted airman:
    The clouds rift suddenly - look there
    63 lines
  • Death's Echo
        "O who can ever gaze his fill,"
        Farmer and fisherman say,
    68 lines
  • Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly
    Deftly, admiral, cast your fly
    Into the slow deep hover,
    27 lines
  • Doggerel by a Senior Citizen
    Our earth in 1969
    Is not the planet I call mine,
    68 lines
  • Edward Lear
    Left by his friend to breakfast alone on the white
    Italian shore, his Terrible Demon arose
    16 lines
  • Epitaph On A Tyrant
    Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
    And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
    6 lines
  • Eyes Look Into The Well
    Eyes look into the well,
    Tears run down from the eye;
    13 lines
  • Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
        Fish in the unruffled lakes
        Their swarming colours wear,
    28 lines
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