Poems by Louis MacNeice
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Snow
... On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands-- ...
House On A Cliff
... Indoors The strong man pained to find his red blood cools, ...
Soap Suds
... hoop and then through the next and thenThrough hoops where no hoops were and each dissolves in turn ...
Eclogue by a Five-barred Gate
... And she went and my eyes regained sight and the sky was full of ladders ...
Autobiography
... When I was five the black dreams came ...
Obituary
... This poem originally appeared in the May 1940 issue of Poetry ...
Epilogue
... Through that forest of dead words ...
Carrickfergus
... Far from the mill girls, the smell of porter, the salt mines ...
Bagpipe Music
... Their knickers are made of crepe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python, ...
Sunday Morning
... That you can abstract this day and make it to the week of time ...
June Thunder
... The white flowers fade to nothing on the trees and rain comes ...
Star-Gazer
... Of their Latin names and partly because I had read in the textbooks ...
Last before America
... The moment is sweat and sun-prick---children and old women ...
Christina
... And her legs and arms were hollow ...
Prayer Before Birth
... provide me With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk ...
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