Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Wang, Albert" wrote: > > That's definitely a very prophetic verse... dang I underestimated Auden's > genius. > > --- tm <leicar8@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I sit in one of the dives > > On Fifty-second Street > > Uncertain and afraid > > As the clever hopes expire > > Of a low dishonest decade; > > Waves of anger and fear > > Circulate over the bright > > And darkened lands of the earth, > > Obsessing our private lives; > > The unmentionable odour of death > > Offends the September night > > > > > > - W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939. > > I underestimated the power and beauty of poetry. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/