Extract Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb: It is the shut,...
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem praising God for dappled, varied and strange things in nature, from brinded cows to finches’ wings and the trades of people.
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sonnet of despair, in which the speaker refuses to give up and wrestles with God, unsure whether the struggle brought cheer to God or to himself.
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sonnet mourns the death of Felix Randall, a farrier, recalling his illness, the priest’s comfort and anointing, and his strength in earlier years at the forge.
Hopkins’s sonnet ‘As kingfishers catch fire’ says each thing expresses its own selfhood, and that the just man acts as Christ in the features of men’s faces.
