Poem by Wystan Hugh Auden

Three Short Poems

"The underground roads
Are, as the dead prefer them,
Always tortuous."

"When he looked the cave in the eye,
Hercules
Had a moment of doubt."

Leaning out over
The dreadful precipice,
One contemptuous tree."

1. At the Party
2. Roman Wall Blues
3. A Walk after Dark
4. The Hidden Law
5. Canzone

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