Ralph Hodgson Morning Poems

• 1. The House Across The Way
  The leaves looked in at the window
  Of the house across the way,
  At a man that had sinned like you and me
  And all poor human clay.
  ...
• 2. The Swallow
  The morning that my baby came
  They found a baby swallow dead,
  And saw a something, hard to name,
  Flit moth-like over baby's bed.
  ...
• 3. The Bride
  The book was dull, its pictures
  As leaden as its lore,
  But one glad, happy picture
  Made up for all and more:
  ...
• 4. The Royal Mails
  For all its flowers and trailing bowers,
  Its singing birds and streams,
  This valley's not the blissful spot,
  The paradise, it seems.
  ...
• 5. A Wood Song
  Now one and all, you Roses,
  Wake up, you lie too long!
  This very morning closes
  The Nightingale his song;
  ...
• 6. Time, You Old Gypsy Man,
  Time, You Old Gypsy Man
  Will you not stay,
  Put up your caravan
  Just for one day?
  ...
• 7. Playmates
  It's sixty years ago, the people say:
  Two village children, neighbours born and bred,
  One morning played beneath a rotten tree
  That came down crash and caught them as they fled;
  ...

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