Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems

A Vision of the Mermaids
Rowing, I reach’d a rock – the sea was low – / Which the tides cover in their overflow, / Marking the spot, when they have gurgled o’er,
As kingfishers catch fire
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; / As tumbled over rim in roundy wells / Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Ash-boughs
Not of all my eyes see, wandering on the world, / Is anything a milk to the mind so, so sighs deep / Poetry to it, as a tree whose boughs break in the sky.
At the Wedding March
God with honour hang your head, / Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed / With lissome scions, sweet scions,
Binsey Poplars felled 1879
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, / Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, / All felled, felled, are all felled;
Brothers
How lovely the elder brother's / Life all laced in the other's, / Lóve-laced! what once I well
Caged Skylark
As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage / Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells - / That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;
Carrion Comfort
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; / Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man / In me ór, most weary, cry . I can;
Cheery Beggar
Beyond Mágdalen and by the Bridge, on a place called there the Plain, / In Summer, in a burst of summertime / Following falls and falls of rain,
Duns Scotus's Oxford
Towery city and branchy between towers; / Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook- racked, river-rounded; / The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did

Page 1 of 8