Wystan Hugh Auden Poems

  • 1.
    Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
    Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
    Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
    Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
    ...
  • 2.
    opos is, we could say to him: "Well,
    we can read to ourselves, our use
    of holy numbers would shock you, and a poet
    may lamentâ??'Where is Telford
    ...
Total 2 Poems by Wystan Hugh Auden

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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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