August 1968 by W. H. Auden: ESL Listening

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

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August 1968 by W. H. Auden: poems

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The Ogre does what ogres can,

Deeds quite impossible for Man,

But one prize is beyond his reach,

The Ogre cannot master Speech:

About a subjugated plain,

Among its desperate and slain,

The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,

While drivel gushes from his lips.

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Epitaph On A Tyrant by W. H. Auden: ESL Listening

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

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Epitaph On A Tyrant by W. H. Auden: poems

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Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;

He knew human folly like the back of his hand,

And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,

And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

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