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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, in 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Enemies
A Divine Image
by William Blake
A Poison Tree
by William Blake
Fletcher McGee
by Edgar Lee Masters
God
by Isaac Rosenberg
Helen
by H. D.
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Epitaph on a Tyrant  
by W. H. Auden

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.



From Another Time by W. H. Auden, published by Random House. Copyright © 1940 W. H. Auden, renewed by The Estate of W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
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