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. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
2. On the Circuit
3. Horae Canonicae: Prime
4. Canzone
5. At the Party

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