University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Now first published: Edited with notes by Robert Bridges

expand section 
expand section 
collapse section 
 52. 
 53. 
53
 54. 
 55. 
 56. 
 57. 
expand section58. 
 59. 
 60. 
 61. 
 62. 
 63. 
 64. 
 65. 
 66. 
 67. 
 68. 
 69. 
 70. 
 71. 
 72. 
 73. 
 74. 

53

[What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been]

What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—
A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it?
With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
Underneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green. [OMITTED]
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling