First Line: ALMOST [OR, PERFECTLY] HAPPY NOW, HE LOOKED AT HIS ESTATE Last Line: THE UNCOMPLAINING STARS COMPOSED THEIR LUCID SONG Subject(s): PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHERS; VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE;
Poem Sources:
POEMS IN ENGLISH, 1530-1940. DAICHES, DAVID (ED.) (1950)
A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY; ENGLISH & AMERICAN. REVISED EDITION. WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.) (1950)
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY EDWARD MENDELSON. AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH (1976)
