Feeling moody, and restful and contrary

[pecunium]

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89). Poems. 1918.

13. Pied Beauty

GLORY be to God for dappled things—	
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;	
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;	
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;	
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;	        
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.	
 
All things counter, original, spare, strange;	
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)	
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;	
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:	        
                  Praise him.

Comments

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

I got to read this poem in 9th grade.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen that poem in decades.

A friend used to publish an arts & crafts monthly and titled it "Pied Beauty."

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

I love Gerard Manley Hopkins. I don't particularly like the Victorian Age very much, but I love his poetry.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

...is one of my favourite poems ever, by one of my favourite poets. Also:

"Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee..."