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Poems


Because of copyright restrictions, no texts of Auden's poems are posted on this site. Links are provided below to poems posted on other sites with the permission of Auden's estate.

The following poems are part of the Auden exhibit on the web site of the Academy of American Poets. They are listed in chronological order of composition.

Lullaby

As I Walked Out One Evening

Epitaph on a Tyrant

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

The Unknown Citizen

September 1, 1939

In Memory of Sigmund Freud

The Fall of Rome

The Shield of Achilles

The More Loving One

On the Circuit, with a recording of Auden reading the poem.

Another poem (with a recording of Auden reading it) may be found at the BBC's Poetry Outloud site:

After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics


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