W. H. Auden

1907-1973 / Male / English
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After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern PhysicsIf all a top physicist knows / About the Truth be true, / Then, for all the so-and-so's,
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A New AgeSo an age ended, and its last deliverer died / In bed, grown idle and unhappy; they were safe: / The sudden shadow of a giant's enormous calf
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Another TimeFor us like any other fugitive, / Like the numberless flowers that cannot number / And all the beasts that need not remember,
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Are You There?Each lover has some theory of his own / About the difference between the ache / Of being with his love, and being alone:
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As I Walked Out One EveningAs I walked out one evening, / Walking down Bristol Street, / The crowds upon the pavement
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As We Like ItCertainly our city with its byres of poverty down to / The river's edge, its cathedral, its engines, its dogs; / Here is the cosmopolitan cooking
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AtlantisBeing set on the idea / Of getting to Atlantis, / You have discovered of course
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At Last the Secret is OutAt last the secret is out, / as it always must come in the end, / the delicious story is ripe to tell
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At the PartyUnrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes: / Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. / Beneath each topic tunelessly discussed
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August 1968The Ogre does what ogres can, / Deeds quite impossible for Man, / But one prize is beyond his reach,
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