Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit, Poet, Manly, young corpse

My favorite pomation

"Pied Beauty"


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.

1 comment:

  1. Manley's own favorite was "the Windhover", written in 1877. He called it "the best I've ever written"

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