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A Spot by Thomas Hardy
In years defaced and lost,
Two sat here, transport-tossed,
Lit by a living love
The wilted wor..
At A Bridal by Thomas Hardy
WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity,
A dream of other offspring held my mind,
Compounded of us..
A Sign-Seeker by Thomas Hardy
I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry,
The day-tides many-shaped and hued;
I see the nightfal..
Amabel by Thomas Hardy
I MARKED her ruined hues,
Her custom-straitened views,
And asked, "Can there indwell
My Amabel?"
..
At An Inn by Thomas Hardy
WHEN we as strangers sought
Their catering care,
Veiled smiles bespoke their thought
Of what we w..
Additions by Thomas Hardy
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s
THEY had long met o’ Zundays--her true love and she--
And at junk..
A New Age by W. H. Auden
So an age ended, and its last deliverer died
In bed, grown idle and unhappy; they were safe:
The s..
A Walk After Dark by W. H. Auden
A cloudless night like this
Can set the spirit soaring:
After a tiring day
The clockwork spect..
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
If all a top physicist knows
About the Truth be true,
Then, for all the so-and-so’s,
Futility and..
Another Time by W. H. Auden
For us like any other fugitive,
Like the numberless flowers that cannot number
And all the beast..
Are You There? by W. H. Auden
Each lover has some theory of his own
About the difference between the ache
Of being with his lo..
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fi..
As We Like It by W. H. Auden
Certainly our city with its byres of poverty down to
The river’s edge, its cathedral, its engines,..
At Last the Secret is Out by W. H. Auden
At last the secret is out,
as it always must come in the end,
the delicious story is ripe to tel..
At the Party by W. H. Auden
Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes:
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
Beneath e..
Atlantis by W. H. Auden
Being set on the idea
Of getting to Atlantis,
You have discovered of course
Only the Ship of F..
August 1968 by W. H. Auden
The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,..
Air by W. S. Merwin
Naturally it is night.
Under the overturned lute with its
One string I am going my way
Which has..
Any Time by W. S. Merwin
How long ago the day is
when at last I look at it
with the time it has taken
to be there still in..
Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surro..
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