Category: Hopkins
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‘The Windhover’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend …
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‘Felix Randal’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Felix Randal the farrier, O is he 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 four disorders, fleshed there, all contended? 4 Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended Being anointed and…
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‘Heaven Haven’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
I have desired to goWhere springs not fail,To fields where flies no sharp and sided hailAnd a few lilies blow.And I have asked to beWhere no storms come.Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea. Considering the Poem Apart from telling us something we didn’t know, or…
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