Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Kings of Missoula
- And the Great
- Inspiration
- Taboo against the Word Beauty, Ornithological Version on Aesthetic Theory
- Bearded Barley
- The Bowerbirds
- The Small Bang
- Dappled Things
- Fire
- Landscape
- Spare
- The Language of Pastoral
- At Buck Hall
- Pied Beauty
- A Dream of Hopkins
- A Simple Garden Ladder
- The Sleep
- Ghazal for My Selves, as Samson & Delilah
- Aubade for One Still Uncertain of Being Born
- Curtal Sonnet (with an Admonition)
- Confession to Hopkins
- Come to Me
- Hopkins in Kildare
- August Green: A Baptism
- Birds at Dawn
- The Acolyte
- To a Young Poet Resisting Hopkins
- Arrhythmia
- Goldengrove
- Date
- All Fall Long
- Strife
- The Bounds of Belief
- The Mind and Soul Growing Wide Withal
- The Horse on Zennor Hill
- The Tao of Alphabet
- Winter Mother
- My Second-Grade Teacher Reads Us Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A.M.: Her Lone Spark Dying
- Ascension
- That Necessary Evil
- The End of the Happy Hours
- One Wet Wednesday Afternoon
- By Eye-slit
- Come on the Cold
- No Fire
- Would Come Back
- River, Dissolution
- from Four Common Prayers
- Pater Noster
- Spring Again
- A Psalm of Ascents
- Poinsett's Bridge
- Reverdie
- The Telegraph Baby
- Red Kites at Tregaron
- Ark
- Saint's finger, Hill of Slane
- In the absence of a contract
- Ten Penny
- Red Bird, Black Sky
- The Tabernacle of Love
- Instructions to an Artisan
- Prayer
- The Christ-Frost
- Horse Apocalypse
- Migration Theory
- Never-Ending Birds
- Hopkins in Ireland
- Epitaph for the Journey
- Parable of the Red-Tailed Hawks
- Scoop
- What to Tell the Girl
- Finding Home by Taste, by Fire
- Winter Solstice
- Compline
- Elegy for D.S.
- Praise Song for Nikky Finney
- Coastland
- Breath and Bread
- I Waked and Fell
- Maple Gall
- Algae
- Aspen Song
- Left Behind
- Hawk in the Bronx
- The Canary
- Christ Imagined as Cavalry Commander
- October Trees
- Prayer to the Birds
- Dylan Thomas
- The Corpse Bird
- Speckled Trout
- Fall Creek
- Fossil Hunting at the Quarry
- Equinoctial
- A Question of Ear
- The Mercy Seat
- Savior
- Ornithology 101
- Oystermen
- Prayer with Fur
- Prayer with Game
- Collateral Damage
- These Fatals
- Elemental
- Via Negativa
- In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
- Knocking or Nothing
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
- A Local Landfill's Invitation to Trash Left on the Moon
- Oil
- Ego
- Perspective
- Spouse
- Saw
- Breeze-Born
- Margaret's Reply
- Sea Journal
- The Baker Falls for Hopkins
- A Sestina for Mishima
- Ποιητική
- Meditation on the Hands of a Boy Miner
- The Acolyte
- Boy with Kite
- Jesuit Graves
- There Is a Balm in Gilead
- Michelle in Rain
- A Path through Walnut Trees after Rain
- Aubade for Yellow Jacket
- Afterword
- Contributors
from Four Common Prayers
from The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Kings of Missoula
- And the Great
- Inspiration
- Taboo against the Word Beauty, Ornithological Version on Aesthetic Theory
- Bearded Barley
- The Bowerbirds
- The Small Bang
- Dappled Things
- Fire
- Landscape
- Spare
- The Language of Pastoral
- At Buck Hall
- Pied Beauty
- A Dream of Hopkins
- A Simple Garden Ladder
- The Sleep
- Ghazal for My Selves, as Samson & Delilah
- Aubade for One Still Uncertain of Being Born
- Curtal Sonnet (with an Admonition)
- Confession to Hopkins
- Come to Me
- Hopkins in Kildare
- August Green: A Baptism
- Birds at Dawn
- The Acolyte
- To a Young Poet Resisting Hopkins
- Arrhythmia
- Goldengrove
- Date
- All Fall Long
- Strife
- The Bounds of Belief
- The Mind and Soul Growing Wide Withal
- The Horse on Zennor Hill
- The Tao of Alphabet
- Winter Mother
- My Second-Grade Teacher Reads Us Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A.M.: Her Lone Spark Dying
- Ascension
- That Necessary Evil
- The End of the Happy Hours
- One Wet Wednesday Afternoon
- By Eye-slit
- Come on the Cold
- No Fire
- Would Come Back
- River, Dissolution
- from Four Common Prayers
- Pater Noster
- Spring Again
- A Psalm of Ascents
- Poinsett's Bridge
- Reverdie
- The Telegraph Baby
- Red Kites at Tregaron
- Ark
- Saint's finger, Hill of Slane
- In the absence of a contract
- Ten Penny
- Red Bird, Black Sky
- The Tabernacle of Love
- Instructions to an Artisan
- Prayer
- The Christ-Frost
- Horse Apocalypse
- Migration Theory
- Never-Ending Birds
- Hopkins in Ireland
- Epitaph for the Journey
- Parable of the Red-Tailed Hawks
- Scoop
- What to Tell the Girl
- Finding Home by Taste, by Fire
- Winter Solstice
- Compline
- Elegy for D.S.
- Praise Song for Nikky Finney
- Coastland
- Breath and Bread
- I Waked and Fell
- Maple Gall
- Algae
- Aspen Song
- Left Behind
- Hawk in the Bronx
- The Canary
- Christ Imagined as Cavalry Commander
- October Trees
- Prayer to the Birds
- Dylan Thomas
- The Corpse Bird
- Speckled Trout
- Fall Creek
- Fossil Hunting at the Quarry
- Equinoctial
- A Question of Ear
- The Mercy Seat
- Savior
- Ornithology 101
- Oystermen
- Prayer with Fur
- Prayer with Game
- Collateral Damage
- These Fatals
- Elemental
- Via Negativa
- In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
- Knocking or Nothing
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
- A Local Landfill's Invitation to Trash Left on the Moon
- Oil
- Ego
- Perspective
- Spouse
- Saw
- Breeze-Born
- Margaret's Reply
- Sea Journal
- The Baker Falls for Hopkins
- A Sestina for Mishima
- Ποιητική
- Meditation on the Hands of a Boy Miner
- The Acolyte
- Boy with Kite
- Jesuit Graves
- There Is a Balm in Gilead
- Michelle in Rain
- A Path through Walnut Trees after Rain
- Aubade for Yellow Jacket
- Afterword
- Contributors
Summary
Because the snow had not come,
winds not
Because your mouth was the mountain
we walked
your words, my words,
the thin light-reaching trees
Because everything that lives was singing
and we heard rejoice rejoice
(though everything that lives was dying or dead and singing please)
Because I could not love you more,
though I tried
Fires of rose-hips and saff ron
Your mouth, a pyre built
by my two hands
Because of this, I sang
though the ice was coming
though all songs were air
And did you sing back?
Chorus to chorus, refrain
(funeral dirge, fugue—refrain)
Did you sing?
I could not hear you over the dry ground
over cracks of flame
the hawk feeding her screeching young
the rat, being eaten
Here was the hour, here was the day:
& I would not turn from my thoughts,
my looping cadence call
I would not hush
How worry ruins every
love I would not
stop
I would not
Night—an infant suckling
I once held her in the way mothers do
happy to be the filth river that buoys her
and that she was made to cross
Once your mouth was the ridge we walked
and I was the dry grass singed
I, the rat and the hawk
All enemies of and not of the flesh
But now I'm too tired to give birth
Do you want to know how the snow came?
The rains, for weeks the rains
Green flooding streets and houses
Floating buses, shoes, floating beds
The snow came the only way it could:
when everything left
and how I was afraid
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- The World is ChargedPoetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, pp. 57 - 58Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2016