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Ralph Hodgson
(1871 - 1962 / England)
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3 poems of Ralph Hodgson
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''Picture that orchard sprite,
Eve, with her body white,
Supple and smooth to her
Slim finger tips,''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Eve (l. 25-28). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace ...
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''"Eva!" Each syllable
Light as a flower fell;
"Eva!" he whispered the
Wondering maid;''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Eve (l. 17-20). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace ...
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''And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. Stupidity Street (l. 9-12). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed...
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''For tamed and shabby tigers
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind pit ponies
And little hunted hares.''
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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-Co...
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''Pity him, this dupe of dream,
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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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 164-168). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (19...
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''See an old unhappy bull,
Sick in soul and body both,
Slouching in the undergrowth
Of the forest beautiful,''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) ...
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''Turns to meet the loathly birds
Flocking round him from the skies,
Waiting for the flesh that dies.''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 178-180). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (19...
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''With his mother gaunt and lean
In the valley warm and green,
Full of baby wonderment,
Blinking out of silly eyes
At a hundred mysteries;''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Bull (l. 68-72). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973...
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''Other hammers, muffled hammers,
Silent hammers of decay.''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Hammers (l. 11-12). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1...
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''I did not pray Him to lay bare
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.''
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Ralph Hodgson (c. 1871-1962), British poet. The Mystery (l. 5-8). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, ...
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