English poem
Hurrahing in Harvest
by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes, Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour; And, 'yes, he'rt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a Rapturous love's greeting of realer, of rounder replies? And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder Majestic - as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! - These things, these things were here and but the beholder Wanting; which two when they once meet, The heart rears wings bold and bolder And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.
More by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Harry Ploughman
- Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil
- Henry Purcell
- Hope Holds to Christ
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day
- In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
- It was a hard thing to undo this knot
- Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: verum-tamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prospera- tur? &c.