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Ralph Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962)
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''Picture that orchard sprite,
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Eve (l. 25-28). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Eve, with her body white,
Supple and smooth to her
Slim finger tips,''
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''"Eva!" Each syllable
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Eve (l. 17-20). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
Light as a flower fell;
"Eva!" he whispered the
Wondering maid;''
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''And in the shops nothing
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Stupidity Street (l. 9-12). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.''
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''For tamed and shabby tigers
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bells of Heaven (l. 7-10). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind pit ponies
And little hunted hares.''
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''Pity him, this dupe of dream,
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 164-168). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
Leader of the herd again
Only in his daft old brain,
Once again the bull supreme
And bull enough to bear the part
Only in his tameless heart.''
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''See an old unhappy bull,
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
Sick in soul and body both,
Slouching in the undergrowth
Of the forest beautiful,''
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''Turns to meet the loathly birds
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 178-180). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
Flocking round him from the skies,
Waiting for the flesh that dies.''
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''With his mother gaunt and lean
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 68-72). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
In the valley warm and green,
Full of baby wonderment,
Blinking out of silly eyes
At a hundred mysteries;''
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''Other hammers, muffled hammers,
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Hammers (l. 11-12). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
Silent hammers of decay.''
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''I did not pray Him to lay bare
Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Mystery (l. 5-8). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.''
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