Three Poems

Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962



I
Babylon where I go dreaming
When I weary of to-day,
Weary of a world grown gray.

II
God loves an idle rainbow,
No less than laboring seas.

III
Reason has moons, but moons not hers
Lie mirrored on her sea,
Confounding her astronomers,
But, oh, delighting me!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AXBB AXX ACDCD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 264
Words 50
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5

Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson, Order of the Rising Sun,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. more…

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