3 Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Sadness

Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes on sadness

25. Hope had grown grey hairs, Hope had mourning on, Trenched with tears, carved with cares, Hope was twelve hours gone.

47. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

56. No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.