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Subject: AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH (1907-1973)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 102 TODAY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If wystan auden were alive today
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Birthdays


A MORAL TALE, by ROGER WODDIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me tell you a little story
Last Line: As wicked as miss gee.
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


A WHEEZE FOR WYSTAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If auden's aunt could love a plant
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973)


ABOUT SUFFERING THEY WERE NEVER WRONG, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They could have told us that the particulars
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


ABOUT SUFFERING THEY WERE NEVER WRONG, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They could have told us that the particulars
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No wish to leave unseen
Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry & Poets


ADVISING AN ADULT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No wish to leave unseen
Last Line: Ice black on the green shoots %the taut chain
Subject(s): Advice; Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Life; Poetry And Poets


AT AUDEN'S MUSEUM, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: About everything, in fact, they were wrong
Last Line: Dangle, broken-winged, treed, becalmed
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry & Poets


BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all
Last Line: You cannot light a match on a crumbling wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets


EULOGY TO W. H. AUDEN, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Assuredly, that fissured face
Last Line: Shine with the wake that gives the / craftsman the gift of peace
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


EULOGY TO W. H. AUDEN, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Assuredly, that fissured face
Last Line: Shine with the wake that gives the %craftsman the gift of peace
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


FOR W.H. AUDEN, by VINICIUS DE MORAES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I am surer where they were going
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


FRIGHTENING A CHILD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not wise to go walking in the ruin
Last Line: Or weaving violets in an endless chain
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Children; Poetry And Poets; Ruins


IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His heart made a last fist
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973)


IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am going over my early rages again
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am going over my early rages again
Last Line: Whose neck I'd hang on, that magician %who could realease me now, whom I release and remember
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by RACHEL WETZSTEON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there are so many intervening years
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


IN MEMORY OF W.H. AUDEN, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there are so many intervening years
Last Line: Not a room, but a way to light it, %not a goal, but a way of arriving
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


IN PRAISE OF AUDEN, by DICK DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: God knows it's possible to fault you
Last Line: And distinguished; in cosmic terms a trifle %but an unwasted life
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Memory; Poetry And Poets


JUST A SMACK AT AUDEN, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


JUST A SMACK AT AUDEN, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end
Last Line: Think of those who vend, boys, think of how we wend, %waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 16, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look west, wystan, lone flier, birdman, my bully boy
Last Line: Migrate, chaste my kestrel, you need a change of air
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


MAKING NOTHING HAPPEN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Auden smiled and slyly said
Last Line: And a warm head
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Jokes; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


PUBLIC JOURNAL, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem
Last Line: And the american royalties, and an inherited income, %to keep the wolf at bay
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


SEEING AUDEN OFF, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ithaca last night, syracuse at noon, cedar rapids tonight
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973)


THE MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN: 16, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look west, wystan, lone flier, birdman, my bully boy
Last Line: Migrate, chaste my kestrel, you need a change of air
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry & Poets


THE WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was auden, I don't remember
Last Line: After we are / not
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary


THEIR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We, wystand hugh auden and louis macneice
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets


TO AUDEN, FR. BADAN DARIDAH, by FAHMIDA RIYAZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's true, my philosopher
Last Line: Than any god/clown of goodness
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Muslims; Poetry And Poets


TO WYSTAN AUDEN IN HIS BIRTHDAY, by EDMUND WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Auden, that thou art living at this hour
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


TOAST, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As quid pro quo for your enchanting verses
Last Line: If I could manage 'just a smack at empson,' %but nothing occured
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


W. H. AUDEN & MANTAN MORELAND, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider them both in paradise
Last Line: Experience where you be in charge of the scene. %for the same reason you probly stopped shufflin
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Poetry And Poets


WORD (2), by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was auden, I don't remember
Last Line: Always %after we are %not
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Language; Poetry And Poets