Ralph Hodgson Time Poems

• 1. The Birdcatcher
  When flighting time is on I go
  With clap-net and decoy,
  A-fowling after goldfinches
  And other birds of joy;
  ...
• 2. The Bride
  The book was dull, its pictures
  As leaden as its lore,
  But one glad, happy picture
  Made up for all and more:
  ...
• 3. 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.
  ...
• 4. A Song Of Honour
  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. Babylon
  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;
  ...
• 6. The Song Of Honour
  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. Time, You Old Gypsy Man,
  Time, You Old Gypsy Man
  Will you not stay,
  Put up your caravan
  Just for one day?
  ...
• 8. The Bull
  See an old unhappy bull,
  Sick in soul and body both,
  Slouching in the undergrowth
  Of the forest beautiful,
  ...

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