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"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Irish poems" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. ... Prayer Before Birth; A ...
Blind Fireworks (1929, mainly considered by MacNeice to be juvenilia and excluded from the 1949 Collected Poems) Poems (1935) Letters from Iceland (1937, with W. H. Auden, poetry and prose) The Earth Compels (1938) Autumn Journal (1939) The Last Ditch (1940) Selected Poems (1940) Plant and Phantom (1941) Springboard (1944) Prayer Before Birth ...
Kennelly's poetry can be scabrous, down-to-earth, and colloquial. He avoided intellectual pretension and literary posturing, and his attitude to poetic language could be summed up in the title of one of his epic poems, "Poetry my Arse". [7] Another long (400-page) epic poem, "The Book of Judas", published in 1991, topped the Irish best-seller ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "1940s poems" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. P. Prayer Before Birth
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 1996) ... This page was last edited on 17 December 2024, at 04:29 ...
Bean torrach, fa tuar broide, do bhí i bpríosún pheannaide, berar dho chead Dé na ndúl, lé leanabh beag sa bhríosún. Ar n-a bhreith do bhí an macámh
Vona Groarke is a leading Irish poet.. She has published fourteen books, including eight collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale (1994), Other People's Houses (1999), Flight (2002), Juniper Street (2006), Spindrift (2009), X (2014), Double Negative (2019), and Link : Poet and World (2021). [1]