Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Despair
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Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on, Trenched with tears, carved with cares, Hope was twelve hours gone.
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Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
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No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!