Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Sofia, Poetry

The Habit of Perfection

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,...

Sofia, Poetry

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,...

Sofia, Poetry

Carrion Comfort

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist – slack they may be – these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;...

Sofia, Poetry

The Windhover

To Christ Our Lord I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung...

Sofia, Poetry

Felix Randall

Felix Randall the farrier, O he is dead then? My duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some Fatal...

Sofia, Poetry

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each...

Sofia, Poetry

Inversnaid

Inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam Flutes and low to the lake falls home. A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth Turns and...