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Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo."
Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo."
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WHO long for rest, who look for pleasure
Away from counter, court, or school
O where live well your lease of leisure
But here at, here at Penmaen Pool?
You'll dare the Alp? you'll dart the skiff?—
Each sport has here its tackle and tool:
Come, plant the staff by Cadair cliff;
Come, swing the sculls on Penmaen Pool.
What's yonder?—Grizzled Dyphwys dim:
The triple-hummocked Giant's stool,
Hoar messmate, hobs and nobs with him
To halve the bowl of Penmaen Pool.
And all the landscape under survey,
At tranquil turns, by nature's rule,
Rides repeated topsyturvy
In frank, in fairy Penmaen Pool.
And Charles's Wain, the wondrous seven,
And sheep-flock clouds like worlds of wool.
For all they shine so, high in heaven,
Shew brighter shak. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I didn't read everything in here, but definitely over half of it, and I'd like to save half for another time. I've enjoyed these poems SO much, and his journal entries and little excerpts of things (like the fictionalized discussion of beauty) were fascinating. There was also an in depth introductio
Gerard Manley Hopkins was a great Poe t of the 19th century. This is the Windhover: (line placements did not copy correctly)
I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dappledawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High
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For the patient reader, the most beautiful language and the most profound ideas about life, death, nature, and humankind.
Hopkins is one of the greatest poets of all time. Wonderfully luminous.