Things Worth Remembering: W. H. Auden’s Poignant Embrace
W. H. Auden at Oxford University in 1972. (Alamy)
One stanza of poetry captures the pleasure of holding another person.
Welcome back to our new Sunday column, Things Worth Remembering, in which Douglas Murray shares poems and passages he’s memorized and how they’ve brought meaning to his life.
To listen to Douglas recite this week’s work—the first stanza of W. H. Auden’s “Lullaby”—click below.
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