This is only 20 seconds long; it consists of just one stanza from Auden’s poem. Despite their brevity, however, I think that these few lines comprise one of the greatest breakup poems ever.
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An excerpt from W. H. Auden’s “Hunting Season”
Down in the startled valley
Two lovers break apart:
He hears the roaring oven
Of a witch’s heart;
Behind his murmur of her name
She sees a marksman taking aim.
(1952)
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 