Ralph Hodgson Life Poems

  • 1.
    The book was dull, its pictures
    As leaden as its lore,
    But one glad, happy picture
    Made up for all and more:
    ...
  • 2.
    For all its flowers and trailing bowers,
    Its singing birds and streams,
    This valley's not the blissful spot,
    The paradise, it seems.
    ...
  • 3.
    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;
    ...
  • 4.
    If you could bring her glories back!
    You gentle sirs who sift the dust
    And burrow in the mould and must
    Of Babylon for bric-a-brac;
    ...
  • 5.
    The world's gone forward to its latest fair
    And dropt an old man done with by the way,
    To sit alone among the bats and stare
    At miles and miles and miles of moorland bare
    ...
  • 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.
    See an old unhappy bull,
    Sick in soul and body both,
    Slouching in the undergrowth
    Of the forest beautiful,
    ...
Total 7 Life Poems by Ralph Hodgson

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