Louis Macneice Never Poems
- 1. Autobiography
My father made the walls resound,
He wore his collar the wrong way round.
When I was five the black dreamscame;
... - 2. The Suicide
And this, ladies and gentlemen, whom I am not in fact
Conducting, was his office all those minutes ago,
This man you never heard of. These are the bills
In the intray, the ash in the ashtray, the grey memoranda stacked
... - 3. Star-gazer
Forty-two years ago (to me if to no one else
The number is of some interest) it was a brilliant starry night
And the westward train was empty and had no corridors
So darting from side to side I could catch the unwonted sight
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