Who is Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962), Order of the Rising Sun (Japanese 旭日章), was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets. In 1954, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

He seems to have covered his tracks in relation to much of his life; he was averse to publicity. This has led to claims that he was reticent. Far from that being the case, his friend Walter De La Mare found him an almost exhausting talker; but he made a point of personal privacy. He kept up a copious correspondence with other poets and literary figures, including those he met in his time in Japan such as Takeshi Saito.

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Ralph Hodgson Poems

  • 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. ...
  • The House Across The Way
    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. ...
  • The Swallow
    The morning that my baby came
    They found a baby swallow dead,
    And saw a something, hard to name,
    Flit moth-like over baby's bed. ...
  • The Birdcatcher
    When flighting time is on I go
    With clap-net and decoy,
    A-fowling after goldfinches
    And other birds of joy; ...
  • Three Poems
    I
    Babylon where I go dreaming
    When I weary of to-day,
    Weary of a world grown gray. ...
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Sweet 10 World 10 Tree 9 Soul 8 Time 8 Life 7 Morning 7 Wild 7 Heaven 7 Never 7


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