Ralph Hodgson Heaven Poems

  • 1.
    For all its flowers and trailing bowers,
    Its singing birds and streams,
    This valley's not the blissful spot,
    The paradise, it seems.
    ...
  • 2.
    The old gilt vane and spire receive
    The last beam eastward striking;
    The first shy bat to peep at eve
    Has found her to his liking.
    ...
  • 3.
    He came and took me by the hand
    Up to a red rose tree,
    He kept His meaning to Himself
    But gave a rose to me.
    ...
  • 4.
    I climbed a hill as light fell short,
    And rooks came home in scramble sort,
    And filled the trees and flapped and fought
    And sang themselves to sleep;
    ...
  • 5.
    'Twould ring the bells of Heaven
    The wildest peal for years,
    If Parson lost his senses
    And people came to theirs,
    ...
  • 6.
    I climbed a hill as light fell short,
    And rooks came home in scramble sort,
    And filled the trees and flapped and fought
    And sang themselves to sleep;
    ...
  • 7.
    Eve, with her basket, was
    Deep in the bells and grass,
    Wading in bells and grass
    Up to her knees,
    ...
Total 7 Heaven Poems by Ralph Hodgson

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