The School of Night

What did I study in your School of Night?

When your mouth’s first unfathomable yes

Opened your body to be my book, I read

My answers there and learned the spell aright,

Yet, though I searched and searched, could never guess

What spirits it raised nor where their questions led.

Those others, familiar tenants of your sleep,

The whisperers, the grave somnambulists

Whose eyes turn in to scrutinize their woe,

The giant who broods above the nightmare steep,

That sleeping girl, shuddering, with clenched fists,

A vampire baby suckling at her toe,

They taught me most. The scholar held his pen

And watched his blood drip thickly on the page

To form a text in unknown characters

Which, as I scanned them, changed and changed again:

The lines grew bars, the bars a Delphic cage

And I the captive of his magic verse.

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• Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• The Common Life by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Christmas Oratio by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Canzone by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Calypso by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Autumn Song by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• August 1968 by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Atlantis by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• As We Like It by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Are You There? by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Academic Graffiti by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• A Walk After Dark by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• A New Year Greeting by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens

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