Ralph Hodgson Tree Poems

• 1. 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.
  ...
• 2. The Mystery
  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.
  ...
• 3. 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;
  ...
• 4. February
  A few tossed thrushes save
  That carolled less than cried
  Against the dying rave
  And moan that never died,
  ...
• 5. After
  "How fared you when you mortal were?
  What did you see on my peopled star?"
  "Oh well enough," I answered her,
  "It went for me where mortals are!
  ...
• 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. 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;
  ...
• 8. The Bull
  See an old unhappy bull,
  Sick in soul and body both,
  Slouching in the undergrowth
  Of the forest beautiful,
  ...
• 9. Eve
  Eve, with her basket, was
  Deep in the bells and grass,
  Wading in bells and grass
  Up to her knees,
  ...

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