Up above, what wind walks! What lovely behavior of silk-sack clouds has wilder, wilful, wavier, meal-drift molded over and melted across skies!
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Topics: Nature
Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Topics: Education, Colleges, Universities
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.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Topics: Spring, Seasons
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.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
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.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
Topics: Wilderness
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Hilaire Belloc British Writer, Poet
- Matthew Arnold English Poet, Critic
- Edward Lear English Humorist, Illustrator
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti British Poet, Artist
- Robert Bridges English Poet
- Thomas Hood British Poet, Humorist
- A. E. Housman English Scholar, Poet
- Leigh Hunt British Author
- John Keats English Poet
- John Dryden English Poet
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