Ralph Hodgson Wild Poems

• 1. The Gipsy Girl
  'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,
  A penny for three tries!'
  Some threw and lost, some threw and won
  A ten-a-penny prize.
  ...
• 2. 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.
  ...
• 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. 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;
  ...
• 5. 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;
  ...
• 6. The Gypsy Girl
  'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,
  A penny for three tries!'
  Some threw and lost, some threw and won
  A ten-a-penny prize.
  ...
• 7. 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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