W.H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
#poetry
#Auden
Red sheer lace thong from Auden! #sissy #panties #pantyboy #lingerie #fetish #feminization #crossdressing #cuckold #humiliation #submission #sissytraining #femboy #sheer #Auden #thong #cock #bulge
"Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition."
W.H. Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.
#Auden #Art #Music
what good ideas/practices are floating around now, perhaps not well-named, not considered plausible, outside #OvertonWindow, etc, that "everyone will have always been *for* this," years from now?
"In the deserts of the heart/
Let the healing fountain start" — #Auden
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Art by John Austin
#BookwormSat's 20th-century poetry theme on Auden's birthday, celebrate "Night Mail"—a rhythmic ode to the postal train bridging worlds. 🚂
READ IT HERE : allpoetry.com/Night-Mail
#Poetry #Auden #Folklore
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#ภพนภามีหมา #auden
If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep when clowns put on their show, If we should stumble when musicians play, Time will say nothing but I told you so.
There are no fortunes to be told, although, Because I love you more than I can say, If I could tell you I would let you know. The winds must come from somewhere when they blow, There must be reasons why the leaves decay; Time will say nothing but I told you so.
Perhaps the roses really want to grow, The vision seriously intends to stay; If I could tell you I would let you know. Suppose all the lions get up and go, And all the brooks and soldiers run away; Will Time say nothing but I told you so? If I could tell you I would let you know. • W. H. Auden
#Sane_Making #poetry
#Auden juxtaposed in the mind against the abattoir that murderous most foul monsters have made of home.
“Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know …”
“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters”
#Auden
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Auden's letter and the manuscript copy of the poem
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4/5 #Auden then categorises his own poems by suitability for children:
'definitely suitable' (3 poems)
'Easy but perhaps not clean enough' (1 poem) &
'Clean but perhaps too difficult' (3 poems).
He adds an autograph copy of Stop All The Clocks: 'I have lately been doing some experiments with songs.'
Auden's letter and the autograph copy of the poem
3/5 The poem was enclosed by #Auden with a letter to a Miss Boyd. She had written to ask whether any modern poetry was suitable for children (under 14). Auden sympathsies: 'It is an unfortunate fact that the things that modern poetry is interested in, are not as a rule what children like'.
The Rare Books Reading Room in Senate House Library
Detail of papers in the Auden bundle
2/5 Back in 2024, I called up a bundle of #Auden documents in Special Collections at Senate House Library. Always a gorgeous place to work, and the site of many discoveries for #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems. The bundle included an autograph copy of 'Stop All the Clocks'...
"So as we gravely bade adieu
I felt quite snubbed — and so would you.
And yet I shook him by the hand,
Impressed that he could understand
The works of those two tops I mention,
So far beyond my comprehension —"
#Auden #Isherwood
“I am fairly much one with the sofa right now.”
Encounters
Entreatment [2]
#London #Soho #Auden #sofa #EDENbyFREI
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Ein TV-Interview, ein geheimnisvoller Wiener "Callboy" namens Hugo... und plötzlich tauchen 100 verschollene Briefe des englischen Dichters W. H. #Auden auf! 💌
Ein Zufall, der Literaturgeschichte schrieb.
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An old railway carriage, some bikes, and a sculpture of a horse pulling a wagon at Parkhead Station
Crawleyside tunnel. It's a steep drop down Crawleyside bank
Old Stockton and Darlington Railway marker above the tunnel
A view across Weardale
From the top I followed the wagonways back to parkhead station and then down the Stanhope and Tyne Railway line
#auden #weardale #sdr200 #wagonway
...Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
#Poetry #Auden #September
My 19th day of the #SealeyChallenge in this strangely early-autumnal August. Selected #Poems by W H Auden.
#BookSky 📚💙 #poetry #Auden
W.H. Auden's beautiful elegy for W.B. Yeats came up on University Challenge today.
#poetry
#auden
#yeats
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W.H. Auden’s 1941 Syllabus Asked Students to Read 32 Great Literary Works, Totaling 6,000 Pages www.openculture.com/2025/07/w-h-... #poetry #poets #Auden #books #book #literature
A nice selection of W.H. Auden material currently available in our shop, including a note written and signed by the poet, and the first edition of his first published book.
www.mcnaughtans.co.uk/shop/?keywor...
#whauden #auden #booksky
A different shot of lacy black teddy from Auden! Bringing out my Inner Girl with FaceApp! #sissy #sissytraining #fetish #feminization #crossdressing #humiliation #cuckold #FaceApp #teddy #bodysuit #submissive #Auden #lingerie
Lacy black teddy from Auden! I don't usually buy lingerie with padded cups but this was too cute to resist! Bringing out my Inner Girl with FaceApp! #sissy #sissytraining #fetish #feminization #crossdressing #humiliation #cuckold #FaceApp #teddy #submissive #pantyboy #Auden
After watching that old Hugh Grant film "Four Weddings and a Funeral", I had a go at putting the WH #Auden #poem "Stop All The Clocks" to music. It half worked, but I think I over-compressed the vocal. Anyway, it's here: sukinolan.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-...
'It's better to be sane than mad, or liked than dreaded;
It's better to sit down to nice meals than to nasty;
It's better to sleep two than single; it's better to be happy.'
#Auden
