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Need help finding a poem please?

The poem is entitled "snow" (which narrows it down to about a gazillion answers on google) and I can't remember the poet. It has do with how the world is "suddener... more spiteful...etc." than we think it. It also mentions a rose and a window. I know this is vague, but if anyone has any idea what thisp oem might be, it would really help! Thanks so much!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Snow

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.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes -
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands -
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

-- Louis MacNeice