More from Gerard Manley Hopkins

  1. It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each …
  2. I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be Wh…
  3. A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.
  4. Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorled ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
  5. That is the great end of empires before God, to be Catholic and draw nations into their Catholicism. But our empire is less and less Christ…
  6. Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins…
  7. It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
  8. Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on, Trenched with tears, carved with cares, Hope was twelve hours gone.

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