Akoot Famous Writers

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."

Written by W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

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