Versos English Gerard Manley Hopkins Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

English poem

Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves

by (1844–1889)

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Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, | vaulty, voluminous, . . stupendous Evening strains to be t'me's v'st, | womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night. Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, | her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height Waste; her earliest stars, earl-stars, | st'rs principal, overbend us, F're-f'aturing heaven. For earth | her being has unbound, her dapple is at an end, as- tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; | self 'n self steep'd and pashed - q'ite Disremembering, d'smembering | 'll now. Heart, you round me right With: 'ur 'vening is over us; 'ur night | wh'lms, wh'lms, 'nd will end us. Only the beak-leaved boughs dragonish | damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black, Ever so black on it. 'ur tale, 'ur oracle! | L't life, w'ned, ah l't life wind Off h'r once sk'ined stained v'ined var'ety | upon, 'll on tw' spools; p'rt, pen, p'ck Now her 'll in tw' flocks, tw' folds - black, white; | right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind But th'se two; w're of a w'rld where b't these | tw' tell, each off the 'ther; of a rack Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, | th'ughts aga'nst thoughts 'n groans gr'nd.