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"I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. Heaven-Haven (l. 1-4). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
"And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. Heaven-Haven (l. 5-8). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
"Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. In the Valley of the Elwy, st. 2, Poems (1918). |
"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. Inversnaid (l. 13-16). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. Inversnaid, st. 4 (written 1881), published in Poems (1918). |
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night!"
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Poems (1918). |
"I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the
walk of the morning:"
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. Moonrise (l. 1). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
"My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting
yet."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. My own heart let me more have pity on (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. No Worst, There Is None (l. 13-14). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
"Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose."
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. Patience, hard thing! The hard thing but to pray (l. 6-7). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
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