The Valley of the Elwy |
The Valley of the Elwy
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
I remember a house where all were good
To me, God knows, deserving no such thing:
Comforting smell breathed at very entering,
Fetched fresh, as I s...
Posted by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:16:00 PST |
No worst, there is none |
No worst, there is none
NO worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us...
Posted by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:04:00 PST |
inscape |
In his journals, Gerard Manley Hopkins used two terms, "inscape" and "instress," which can cause some confusion. By "inscape" he means the unified complex of characteristics that give each thing its u...
Posted by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:16:00 PST |
Like Lilies in the Sun |
No stories or parables are like Christ's, so bright, so pithy, so touching; no proverbs or sayings are such jewellery: they stand off from other men's thoughts like stars, like lilies in t...
Posted by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:48:00 PST |
As Kingfishers Catch Fire |
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow ...
Posted by Gerard Manley Hopkins on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:18:00 PST |
