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Letter "G" » Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
«All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep»
«Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim»
«What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Poet, Priest)
| Keywords:
bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, long-lived, the Wilderness, weeds, wet, wilderness, wildness
«I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,»
«O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.»
«Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?»
«Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.»
«Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!/ O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Poet, Priest)
| Keywords:
borough, citadel, citadels, folk, look up, skies, The Circle, The Citadel
«A few other little things; some in sprung rhythm, with various other experiments.»
«O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne'er hung there.»
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