Ralph Hodgson Soul Poems

  • 1.
    The leaves looked in at the window
    Of the house across the way,
    At a man that had sinned like you and me
    And all poor human clay.
    ...
  • 2.
    The book was dull, its pictures
    As leaden as its lore,
    But one glad, happy picture
    Made up for all and more:
    ...
  • 3.
    For all its flowers and trailing bowers,
    Its singing birds and streams,
    This valley's not the blissful spot,
    The paradise, it seems.
    ...
  • 4.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    See an old unhappy bull,
    Sick in soul and body both,
    Slouching in the undergrowth
    Of the forest beautiful,
    ...
  • 8.
    Sour fiend, go home and tell the Pit
    For once you met your master, -
    A man who carried in his soul
    Three charms against disaster,
    ...
Total 8 Soul Poems by Ralph Hodgson

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