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Ralph Hodgson Quotes (1871-1962)
Poet, Activist
About Ralph Hodgson
Ralph Edwin Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962) was an English poet of the Georgian school, and an animal-rights activist.
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“God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas.”
“Hodgson, a man of steadfast integrity and strong personality, possessed true distinction.”
“Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?”
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?”
“Reason has moons, but moons not hers
Lie mirror'd on her sea,
Confounding her astronomers,
But, O! delighting me.”
Lie mirror'd on her sea,
Confounding her astronomers,
But, O! delighting me.”
“'Twould ring the bells of Heaven
The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to theirs,
And he and they together
Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind, pit ponies,
And little hunted hares.”
The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to theirs,
And he and they together
Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind, pit ponies,
And little hunted hares.”
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Ralph Hodgson on Idleness
“God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.”
Ralph Hodgson on Rainbows
“God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.”
Ralph Hodgson on Infant
“The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead, And saw a something hard to name Fly mothlike over baby's bed.”
Ralph Hodgson on Fruit
About Ralph Hodgson
Ralph Edwin Hodgson (9 September 1871 – 3 November 1962) was an English poet of the Georgian school, and an animal-rights activist.