The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

• As Kingfishers Catch Fire
• Binsey Poplars
• The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe
• Carrion Comfort
• Duns Scotus' Oxford
• God's Grandeur
• Harry Ploughman
• Henry Purcell
• Hurrahing in Harvest
• Inversnaid
• I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
• The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
• The May Magnificat
• My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
• No Worst, There is None
• Patience, Hard Thing!
• Pied Beauty
• The Sea and the Skylark
• Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
• Spring
• Spring and Fall
• St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
• The Starlight Night
• That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
• Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
• Tom's Garland
• To Seem the Stranger
• To What Serves Mortal Beauty
• The Windhover
• The Wreck of the Deutschland - Part the First
• The Wreck of the Deutschland - Part the Second

The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins » 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, fallow, and
plough;
And àll tràdes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.