Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907 - 1973)

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

• As I Walked Out One Evening
• Epitaph on a Tyrant
• First Things First
• Friday's Child
• In Memory of Sigmund Freud
• In Memory of W. B. Yeats
• Lullaby
• On Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
• On the Circuit
• September 1, 1939
• The Fall of Rome
• The More Loving One
• The Shield of Achilles
• The Unknown Citizen

the Poetry Archive

• The Shield of Achilles
• One Evening
• The Fall of Rome

and The Poetry Foundation

• Doggerel by a Senior Citizen
• Journey to Iceland
• Ode to the Medieval Poets
• The Shield of Achilles
• Voltaire at Ferney

  All of W. H. Auden's poems are in copyright. Permission to publish must be sought of the poet's publishers.