In About the House some of the parts of poem no. 86 had shorter poems appended to them as "Postscripts"; these have been omitted here, as Auden omitted them in his own selections, one of which he prepared shortly after the poem first appeared.
Index of Titles and First Lines
A cellar underneath the house, though not lived in 259 A cloudless night like this 188
A lake allows an average father, walking slowly 208 A living room, the catholic area you 276 A shilling life will give you all the facts 32 A starling and a willow-wren 200 About suffering they were never wrong 79 Adrian and Francisco 141 Adventure 108 Adventurers, The 108
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics 246
After shaking paws with his dog 218
All are limitory, but each has her own 295
All folk-tales mean by ending 278
All had been ordered weeks before the start 99
Alonso 141
Always far from the centre of our names 77
Among pelagian travelers 248
Among the leaves the small birds sing 231
And the age ended, and the last deliverer died 70
And the traveller hopes: "Let me be far from any 46
Antonio 136
Archaeology 302
Ares at last has quit the field 178
Ashamed to be the darling of his grief 102
As a young child the wisest could adore him 69
As all the pigs have turned back into men 136
As I walked out one evening 60
At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's 144
At the Grave of Henry James 119
Atlantis 116
August 1968 291 Average, The 105
Being set on the idea 116 Bucolics 202 But I Can't 110
But in the evening the oppression lifted 74
Caliban to the Audience 148 Capital, The 78 Casino 45
Cave of Making, The 256 Cave of Nakedness, The 273
Certainly praise: let the song mount again and again 71 City, The 101 Common Life, The 276 Compline 230
Consider this and in our time 14
Control of the passes was, he saw, the key 3
Crossroads, The 100
Dame Kind 242
Dark-green upon distant heights 284 Dear, all benevolence of fingering lips 111 Dear Son, when the warm multitudes cry 141 Dear, though the night is gone 44
Dear water, clear water, playful in all your streams 214 Deep below our violences 202 Deftly, admiral, cast your fly 187
Don Juan needs no bed, being far too impatient to undress 273 Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle 18 Door, The 99 Down There 259
Easily, my dear, you move, easily your head 33 Embrace me, belly, like a bride 138 Encomium Balnei 263
Engines bear them through the sky: they're free 72
Epitaph on a Tyrant 80
Epithalamium 278
Et in Arcadia Ego 250
Evening, grave, immense, and clear 139
Except where blast-furnaces and generating-stations 287
Fairground 280 Fall of Rome, The 183
Far from the heart of culture he was used 73
Ferdinand 137
First Temptation, The 102
First Things First 236
Fleet Visit 197
Flesh, fair. unique, and you, warm secret that my kiss 137 For Friends Only 269
For this and for all enclosures like it the archetype 256 Forty Years On 287
Fresh addenda are published every day 106 Friday's Child 237
From gallery-grave and the hunt of a wren-king 252 From the very first coming down 2
Garden, The 110
Geography of the House, The 261
Gonzalo 139
Good little sunbeams must learn to fly 141 Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno 239 Grub First, Then Ethics 266
He disappeared in the dead of winter 80 He looked in all his wisdom from the throne 70 He parried every question that they hurled 107 He stayed: and was imprisoned in possession 66 He told us we were free to choose 237 He turned his field into a meeting-place 68 He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be 85 He was their servant-some say he was blind 68 He watched the stars and noted birds in flight 67 He watched with all his organs of concern 103 Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys 28 Here war is simple like a monument 72 Hero, The 107
His generous bearing was a new invention 67
His peasant parents killed themselves with toil 105
Homage to Clio 232
Horae Canonicae 216
How still it is; the horses 175
I can imagine quite easily ending up 211 I know a retired dentist who only paints mountains 206 I sit in one of the dives 86 If all a top physicist knows 246
If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones 184 If now, having dismissed your hired impersonators 148 If the hill overlooking our city has always been known 227 - In a garden shady this holy lady 96 In Memory of Sigmund Freud 91 In Memory of W. B. Yeats 80 In Praise of Limestone 184 In Sickness and in Health 111 In Time of War 64