Poem by Wystan Hugh Auden

Base Words Are Uttered

Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood,
But noble platitudes:—ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

1. O What Is That Sound
2. Under Which Lyre
3. Atlantis
4. For What As Easy
5. In Memory of W.B. Yeats

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