Versos English Gerard Manley Hopkins 53

English poem

53

by (1844–1889)

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WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been That here personal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?-- A bush-browed, beetle-browed billow is it? With a south-westerly wind blustering, with a tide rolls reels Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen Underneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green. . . . . . . . . Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling