...song. His own epitaph is in those haunting lines that close the 1920 edition of the Complete Poems: AFTERWARDS When the present has latched its postern...its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new spun silk, will the neighbors say, 'He was a man who used to notice such things'? If I pass during...

...Better close no prevision could lend ; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern...May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate -filmed as new-spun silk, will the people say, " He was a man who used to notice such things"...

...day decays. It will be word enough of praise.' In poems as in novels he is very close to nature : ' When the Present has latched its postern behind my...was a man who used to notice such things " ? ' If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm. When the hedgehog travels furtively over the...

...love, obedience, troops of friends. The last poem in Moments of Vision blesses rather than curses life. AFTERWARDS When the Present has latched its postern...the people say "He was a man who used to notice such things"f If it he in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing...

...Better close no prevision could lend ; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, " He was a man who used to notice such things " ? If it be in the dusk when, like an...

...be as unbegun. Your face, and a God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with greyish leaves. \ When the Present has latched its postern behind my...May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings. One wonders how such a poet came to be our contemporary, and not the contemporary of Shakespeare. And...

...symbol of the immortality of his writings, the poppies of sleep, the long sleep of which he spoke in Afterwards: When the Present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, »He was a man who used to notice such things»? If I pass during some nocturnal blackness,...

...symbol of the immortality of his writings, the poppies of sleep, the long sleep of which he spoke in Afterwards: When the Present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, »He was a man who used to notice such things»? If I pass during some nocturnal blackness,...

...Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day? RALPH HODGSON 440 AFTERWARDS WHEN the Present has latched its postern...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"? If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's...

...simple poem as "Afterwards," limited to making a single point, has the note of individual utterance: When the Present has latched its postern behind my...wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things'? . . . But he is best of all when he...