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''As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;''
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. As Kingfishers Catch Fire (l. 1). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxfor...
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O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being so slender,
That, like this sleek and se...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. Binsey Poplars, st. 2 (written 1879), published in Poems (1918).
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