#Napodpomo 10/30. "In Memory of WB Yeats". READING POETRY by WH Auden

From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony · Nov 11, 2025 · 16m

You hear Auden read his poem twice. Paul O'Mahony reads it 1.3 times (including a few slips of his tongue.

IN MEMORY OF W B YEATS

"He disappeared in the dead of winter:

The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,

And snow disfigured the public statues;

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

O all the instruments agree

The day of his death was a dark cold day.

Far from his illness

The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests,

The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays;

By mourning tongues

The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

But for him it was his…