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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
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Priest and poet, G.M. Hopkins was born at Stratford in Essex, the eldest of eight children. His father ran a successful marine insurance business in L .. more >>
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Easter Communion

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  Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:
God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.
You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,
Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced
To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East
With draught of thin and pursuant cold so nips
Breathe Easter now; you serged fellowships,
You vigil-keepers with low flames decreased,

God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent
With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze
And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment
Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.
Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent:
Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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  Genevieve Federhen  (2/4/2009 1:01:00 PM)

Nice alliteration, even in merely the first two lines:

'...fasted faces...feast'
'...Lenten lips.'
  Kevin Straw  (2/4/2009 7:37:00 AM)

I can read the religious poems of Donne and Herbert happily, but this intense almost masochistic view of religion is alien to me. The idea of the marks of the whip on the penitents' backs forming the Cross is rather disturbing. My idea of Jesus is someone who was happy in the flesh, dining with wine-bibbers. And I'm still not sure if Hopkins' sprung verse is not an excuse for a lack of prosodic skill.
  Mel Patterson  (2/4/2007 3:50:00 PM)

Thank you for your beautiful poem. I read it several times and I felt my heart move. I am richer for having read this inspiration.

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