Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: Verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c. Thou art […]

Yes. Why do we бll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the […]

God with honour hang your head, Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed With lissome scions, sweet scions, Out of […]

May is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season- […]

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, […]

The sea took pity: it interposed with doom: ‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand: Let Winter wed […]

Teevo cheevo cheevio chee: O where, what can thбat be? Weedio-weedio: there again! So tiny a trickle of sуng-strain; And […]

Mortal my mate, bearing my rock-a-heart Warm beat with cold beat company, shall I Earlier or you fail at our […]

This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam […]

For the Visitors’ Book at the Inn Who long for rest, who look for pleasure Away from counter, court, or […]

Hark, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood Of […]

My own heart let me have more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; […]

a. Not of all my eyes see, wandering on the world, Is anything a milk to the mind so, so […]

at a Gracious Answer ‘But tell me, child, your choice; what shall I buy You?’-‘Father, what you buy me I […]

As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells- That bird […]

I remember a house where all were good To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: Comforting smell breathed at […]

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, […]

Laybrother of the Society of Jesus Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed […]

Love I was shewn upon the mountain-side And bid to catch Him ere the dropp of day. See, Love, I […]

Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight […]

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string […]

I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level […]

How lovely the elder brother’s Life all laced in the other’s, Lóve-laced!-what once I well Witnessed; so fortune fell. When […]

My prayers must meet a brazen heaven And fail and scatter all away. Unclean and seeming unforgiven My prayers I […]

May is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season- […]

What shall I do for the land that bred me, Her homes and fields that folded and fed me?- Be […]

The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, Breathes once and, quenchèd […]

Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded; The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town […]

To what serves mortal beauty ‘-dangerous; does set danc- Ing blood-the O-seal-that-so ‘ feature, flung prouder form Than Purcell tune […]

Repeat that, repeat, Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet, With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound […]