The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Auden is just another reminder of his exhilarating lyric power and his understanding of love and longing in all their sacred and profane guises. One of English poetry's great 20th century masters, Poems: Auden is the short collection of an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries of experience.

Taller to-day — The secret agent — This lunar beauty — The question — What's in your mind, my dove, my coney — 'O where are you going?' — The wanderer — Adolescence — Have a good time — A summer night — Paysage moralise — O what is that sound — Our hunting fathers — Who's who — May — On this island — Night mail — As I walked out one evening — The dream — Fish in the unruffled lakes — Autumn song — Underneath an abject willow — At last the secret is out — Funeral blues — Johnny — Roman wall blues — O tell me the truth about love — Casino — Dover — Death's echo — Lullaby — As he is — The capital — Musee des Beaux Arts — The novelist — The composer — Epitaph on a tyrant — In memory of W.B. Yeats — The unknown citizen — The prophets — The riddle — Law like love — The hidden law — Refugee blues — Calypso — Eyes look into the well — Domesday song — In memory of Sigmund Freud — Hell — Lady weeping at the crossroads — Diaspora — Blessed event.