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 » Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, | vaulty, voluminous, . .
stupendous
Evening strains to be tíme's vást, | womb-of-all, home-of-all,
hearse-of-all night.
Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, | her wild hollow
hoarlight hung to the height
Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, | stárs principal, overbend us,
Fíre-féaturing heaven. For earth | her being has unbound, her
dapple is at an end, as-
tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self ín self steepèd
and pashed--qúite
Disremembering, dísmembering | àll now. Heart, you round me
right
With: Óur évening is over us; óur night | whélms, whélms, ánd
will end us.
Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish | damask the tool-smooth
bleak light; black,
Ever so black on it. Óur tale, óur oracle! | Lét life, wáned,
ah lét life wind
Off hér once skéined stained véined varíety | upon, áll on twó
spools; párt, pen, páck
Now her áll in twó flocks, twó folds--black, white; | right,
wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind
But thése two; wáre of a wórld where bút these | twó tell, each
off the óther; of a rack
Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, | thóughts
agaínst thoughts ín groans grínd.