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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: hodgson, ralph Matches Found: 35 Hodgson, Ralph Poet's Biography 35 poems available by this author A WOOD SONG Poem Text First Line: Now one and all, you roses Last Line: No less than labouring seas. Subject(s): Idleness; Morning; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence AFTER First Line: How fared you when you mortal were? BABYLON Poem Text First Line: If you could bring her glories back! Last Line: Will take her to itself again. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise BABYLON - WHERE I GO DREAMING BRIDE First Line: The book was dull, its pictures Last Line: Who wrestles with the ages %to give the world a bride Subject(s): Brides; Marriage BULL First Line: See an old unhappy bull Last Line: Waiting for the flesh that dies Subject(s): Bulls COUPLET First Line: God loves a lovely rainbow EVE Poem Text First Line: Eve, with her basket, was Last Line: "eva!"" again." Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology GREAT AUK'S GHOST ROSE ON ONE LEG Last Line: And turned and poached a phantom egg, %and muttered, 'I'm extinct' Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural HAMMERS First Line: Noise of hammers once I heard Last Line: Silent hammers of decay HYMN TO MOLOCH First Line: O thou who didst furnish %the fowls of the air Last Line: An plant thy strong sword %in their livers at last Subject(s): Birds LATE, LAST ROOK First Line: The old gilt vane and spire receive MISSEL THRUSH First Line: I saw the sun burn in the blue Subject(s): Birds MY BOOKS First Line: When the folks have gone to bed Subject(s): Books OLD WORDS First Line: - say that over! Last Line: - strange they sound to modern ears! REASON HAS MOONS, BUT MOONS NOT HERS Last Line: But, o! Delighting me Variant Title(s): Reason Has Moon RIDDLE First Line: He told himself and he told his wife ROYAL GUEST First Line: Yet if his majesty our sovereign lord Last Line: And, as at first, still lodge him in a manger SILVER WEDDING First Line: In the middle of the night he started up Last Line: I one time was, %and am no more' - she cried SONG First Line: With love among the haycocks Last Line: And o! The merry laughter %across the hayfield after! SONG First Line: There, sharp and sudden, there I heard Subject(s): Birds SONG OF HONOR First Line: I heard the universal prayer Subject(s): Religion SONG OF HONOUR Poem Text First Line: I climbed a hill as light fell short Subject(s): Love STUPIDITY STREET Poem Text First Line: I saw with open eyes Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Liberty STUPIDITY STREET First Line: I saw with open eyes Last Line: Nothing for sale in %stupidity street Subject(s): Animals; Freedom SWALLOW First Line: The morning that my baby came THE BELLS OF HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Twould ring the bells of heaven Last Line: And little hunted hares. Subject(s): Animals; Social Protest THE BIRDCATCHER Poem Text First Line: When flighting time is on, I go Last Line: They fly into my head. Subject(s): Birds THE BULL Poem Text First Line: See an old unhappy bull Subject(s): Bulls THE GYPSY GIRL Poem Text First Line: Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen Last Line: The darkness of her eyes! Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Girl Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies THE MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: He came and took me by the hand Last Line: And his own face to see. Subject(s): God THE SEDGE WARBLER Poem Text First Line: In early summer moonlight I have strayed Last Line: Till broke the babel of the summer day. Subject(s): Birds TIME First Line: Spiralwise it spins Last Line: Groans like a ship aground; %shadow makes more noise Subject(s): Time TIME, YOU OLD GIPSY MAN Poem Text TIME, YOU OLD GIPSY MAN |
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