Gerard Hopkins Quotes (15 Quotes)


    This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.

    O the mind, mind has mountains cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there.

    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . ,

    I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.

    All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep


    Birds build - but not I build no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

    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

    That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God) my God.

    O then if in my lagging lines you miss The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation.

    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

    The fine delight that fathers thought the strong Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame, Breathes once and, quenchd faster than it came, Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song.

    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.

    I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves but worse.

    Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer.

    Just for lack Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack There God to aggrandize, God to glorify.


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