Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918. GLORY be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For r...
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.
GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
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WOW! I learned to love this poem and other works of Gerard Manley Hopkins at 18 from Sister Claire Madeline, SNJM, my English professor at Holy Names College. This sure does take me back. I am grateful you shared it here.
ReplyWOW! I learned to love this poem and other works of Gerard Manley Hopkins at 18 from Sister Claire Madeline, SNJM, my English professor at Holy Names College. This sure does take me back. I am grateful you shared it here.
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