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Louis Macneice
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Louis Macneice
(12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963 / Belfast)
16 poems of Louis Macneice
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1      Autobiography
2      Bagpipe Music
3      Carrickfergus
4      Christina
5      Epilogue
6      House On A Cliff
7      June Thunder
8      Prayer Before Birth
9      Snow
10      Soap Suds
11      Star-Gazer
12      Sunday Morning
13      The Brandy Glass
14      The Suicide
15      The Sunlight on the Garden
16      Wolves
        
 

 
 
 
  Soap Suds

This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big
House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open
To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop
To rest at the head of a mallet held in the hands of a child.

And these were the joys of that house: a tower with a telescope;
Two great faded globes, one of the earth, one of the stars;
A stuffed black dog in the hall; a walled garden with bees;
A rabbit warren; a rockery; a vine under glass; th
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