Ralph Hodgson Never 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.
    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;
    ...
  • 3.
    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;
    ...
  • 4.
    A few tossed thrushes save
    That carolled less than cried
    Against the dying rave
    And moan that never died,
    ...
  • 5.
    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;
    ...
  • 6.
    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;
    ...
  • 7.
    Eve, with her basket, was
    Deep in the bells and grass,
    Wading in bells and grass
    Up to her knees,
    ...
Total 7 Never Poems by Ralph Hodgson

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