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Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration. O then if in my lagging lines you miss
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Up above, what wind walks! What lovely behavior of silk-sack clouds has wilder, wilful, wavier, meal-drift molded over and melted across skies!
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Towery city and branching between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
By Gerard Manley Hopkins