Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HODGE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Countryman hodge has gone to fight Last Line: And hodge will come to his own again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
After reading Maurice Hewlett's 'Song of the Plow' COUNTRYMAN HODGE has gone to fight; The girls must help to raise the grain, Must fag in the workshops day and night, Till Hodge come back to his home again. His life was ever a life of toil In snow and frost, in drought or rain; But he is heir and son of the soil And Hodge shall come to his own again. The Norman oppressed him long ago, But nought reck'd he of pity or pain, He stuck to his work and lay full low Till he should come to his own again. Then Commerce swelled and drove him down; Little he got from all her gain; His boys went off and made the town, But Hodge shall come to his own again. He has waited long and foughten well That Peace should smile and Plenty reign; And now, as bygone riddlers tell, Hodge shall come to his own again. 'The day when folk shall fly in the air And skim like birds above the plain, Then shall the plowman have his share And Hodge will come to his own again.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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