“The underground roads
Are, as the dead prefer them,
Always tortuous.”

“When he looked the cave in the eye,
Hercules
Had a moment of doubt.”

Leaning out over
The dreadful precipice,
One contemptuous tree.”

(C) W. H. Auden
01/01/2000


Best Poems of W. H. Auden

• Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love
• Under Which Lyre
• Lullaby
• Law Like Love
• In Memory Of W.b. Yeats
• A Walk After Dark
• Like A Vocation
• In Praise Of Limestone
• August 1968
• The Unknown Citizen
• September 1, 1939
• If I Could Tell You
• The Shield Of Achilles
• Three Short Poems
• Epitaph On A Tyrant
• The Two
• Voltaire At Ferney
• As I Walked Out One Evening
• The More Loving One
• The Novelist
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