One of this man's comic poems begins by asserting, "It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw."
In one of this man's poems, the smell of the title substance reminds a man of "the big/house he visited when he was eight," but "the mallet slipped long since from the hands…that are not the hands of a child." This author of "Soap Suds" wrote, "Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me/otherwise kill me" in a poem that begins "I am not yet born; O hear me." One of this man's comic poems begins by asserting, "It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw." For 10 points, name this author of "Prayer Before Birth" and "Bagpipe Music," an Irish poet who was friends with W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender.
In one of this man's poems, the smell of the title substance reminds a man of "the big/house he visited when he was eight," but "the mallet slipped long since from the hands…that are not the hands of a child."
{Louis MacNeice}