September 1, 1939

Poem Details

Original Publication Year:
1939
Poet:
W. H. Auden
Poetic Form:
Free verse

Poems that Share Poetic Form

  1. at the cemetery,/ walnut grove plantation, south carolina,
  2. Seduced by Natassja Kinski
  3. To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals
  4. On Seeing Larry River's Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
  5. Frederico's Ghost
  6. 1072 (Title divine——is mine!)
  7. The Fish
  8. Daddy
  9. Lady Lazarus
  10. The Man-Moth
  11. At the Fishhouses
  12. Filling Station
  13. The Day Lady Died
  14. Sun And Rain
  15. Why I Am Not a Painter
  16. Berryman
  17. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
  18. Worn Words
  19. Thinking of James Dean
  20. Trying to Talk With a Man
  21. "They Dream Only of America"
  22. Diving into the Wreck
  23. Syringa
  24. Twenty-One Love Poems
  25. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
  26. Hope Atherton's Wanderings
  27. Questions of Travel
  28. The Problem of Anxiety
  29. Crusoe in England
  30. In the Waiting Room
  31. Words to that Effect
  32. Home Burial
  33. Memories of West Street and Lepke
  34. Paradoxes and Oxymorons
  35. Skunk Hour
  36. Caesar
  37. Epilogue
  38. For the Anniversary of My Death
  39. Middle Passage
  40. The Asians Dying
  41. Runagate Runagate
  42. For A Coming Extinction
  43. To the Diaspora
  44. Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise
  45. A Step Away From Them
  46. The Horse
  47. Mi Tio Baca El Poeta De Socorro
  48. The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach
  49. Altar
  50. The Painters
  51. Cassandra
  52. Little Clown, My Heart
  53. Indian Boy Love (#2)
  54. SOS
  55. The Dragonfly
  56. I Am Accused of Tending To the Past
  57. The Native American Broadcasting System
  58. Black Art
  59. Southern Mansion
  60. at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
  61. Evolution
  62. When We'll Worship Jesus
  63. A Communication to Nancy Cunard
  64. reply
  65. Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians
  66. Black Dada Nihilismus
  67. A Song in the Front Yard
  68. the message of crazy horse
  69. Tourists
  70. In the Tradition
  71. The Blackstone Rangers
  72. poem to my uterus
  73. Corsons Inlet
  74. Beaufort Tides
  75. Young Afrikans
  76. Gravelly Run
  77. Report to the Stockholders
  78. The Boy Died in My Alley
  79. Coon Song
  80. Street Lamps in Early Spring
  81. To Those of My Sisters Who Keep Their Naturals
  82. Mixed Feelings
  83. You
  84. Poema Para Los Californios Muertos
  85. Street Musicians
  86. The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree
  87. Starfish
  88. Dull Mauve
  89. The Riddle of the Fat Faced Man
  90. Southern Road
  91. A Kind of Chill
  92. At the Crossroad
  93. Seduced by Natassja Kinski
  94. Spooks Run Wild
  95. At the Well
  96. Hummingbird Heart
  97. Marine Shadow
  98. Counting Small-Boned Bodies
  99. How I Got That Name
  100. brothers
  101. Fidel in Ohio
  102. After Lorca
  103. Marriage
  104. The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango
  105. The Flower
  106. Bomb
  107. Imagine The Angels Of Bread
  108. The Pool
  109. On Seeing Larry River's Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
  110. Oread
  111. To my wash-stand
  112. Mid-Day
  113. Mantis
  114. Sea Rose
  115. The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  116. Garden
  117. Musée des Beaux Arts
  118. The Helmsman
  119. In Memory of W. B. Yeats
  120. Eurydice
  121. Marriage (Gregory Corso)
  122. The Walls Do Not Fall
  123. I Am New York City
  124. Shooting Script
  125. Porphyro in Akron
  126. Bully
  127. Voyages I
  128. The Lover of the Subversive is also a Subversive
  129. The River
  130. Federico's Ghost
  131. Cape Hatteras
  132. to my last period
  133. The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp
  134. The Mango Tree
  135. Black Star Line
  136. You'll be fucked up
  137. #1072 (194) ("Title divine-is mine!")
  138. Life Magazine, December, 1941
  139. Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
  140. The Man at the Factory Guide
  141. The Torso (Passages 18)
  142. Howl
  143. Up Rising (Passages 25)
  144. Love Poem on Theme By Whitman
  145. My Mother Would Be a Falconress
  146. Wichita Vortex Sutra
  147. Return of the Wolves
  148. I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body
  149. La Morena and her Beehive Hairdo
  150. Carol
  151. Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
  152. Tenebris
  153. Dear John Wayne
  154. A Mona Lisa
  155. The Fence
  156. Fragment
  157. Tattoo
  158. A Canticle to the Waterbirds
  159. Ming the Merciless
  160. Parsley
  161. Dirge
  162. Brother John
  163. The Sheep Child
  164. Denouement
  165. Dear John, Dear Coltrane
  166. Falling
  167. The Museum of Stones
  168. Rusia en 1931
  169. Son of Msippi
  170. We're Caffeinated by Rain inside Concrete Underpasses