Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Starlight Night
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes!
The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! –
Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.
Buy then! bid then! – What? – Prayer, patience, alms, vows.
Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!
Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!
These are indeed the barn: withindoors house
The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.
I’ve never read that. That is amazing.
All the exclamation marks in this one. Vivid, exciting.
It’s honestly quite amazing how every time I visit your site, I discover a new piece of inspiration. Thanks for that, Dennis.
Thanks. Half of it is very easy since I use the works of others. It’s my half that’s harder to uphold.