Louis Macneice Suddenly Poems

  • 1.
    It all began so easy
    With bricks upon the floor
    Building motley houses
    And knocking down your houses
    ...
  • 2.
    The Junes were free and full, driving through tiny
    Roads, the mudguards brushing the cowparsley,
    Through fields of mustard and under boldly embattled
    Mays and chestnuts
    ...
  • 3.
    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
    ...
  • 4.
    The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
    Spawning snow and pink roses against it
    Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
    World is suddener than we fancy it.
    ...
Total 4 Suddenly Poems by Louis Macneice

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Some Days retired from the rest
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Some Days retired from the rest
In soft distinction lie
The Day that a Companion came
Or was obliged to die


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