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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Now first published: Edited with notes by Robert Bridges
Hopkins, Gerard Manley,1844-1889

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EARLY POEMS
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[1] For a Picture of St. Dorothea
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2 Heaven—Haven
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3 The Habit of Perfection
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POEMS 1876–1889
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[4] THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND
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5 Penmaen Pool
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6 The Silver Jubilee:
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7 God's Grandeur
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8 The Starlight Night
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9 Spring
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10 The Lantern out of Doors
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11 The Sea and the Skylark
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12 The Windhover:
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13 Pied Beauty
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14 Hurrahing in Harvest
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15 The Caged Skylark
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16 In the Valley of the Elwy
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17 The Loss of the Eurydice
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18 The May Magnificat
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19 Binsey Poplars
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20 Duns Scotus's Oxford
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21 Henry Purcell
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22 Peace
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23 The Bugler's First Communion
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24 Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice
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25 Andromeda
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26 The Candle Indoors
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27 The Handsome Heart:
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28 At the Wedding March
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29 Felix Randal
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30 Brothers
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31 Spring and Fall:
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32 Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
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33 Inversnaid
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35 Ribblesdale
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36 The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
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37 The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
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38 To what serves Mortal Beauty?
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39 (The Soldier)
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40 (Carrion Comfort)
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42 Tom's Garland:
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43 Harry Ploughman
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48 That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
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49 In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
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51 To R. B.
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UNFINISHED POEMS & FRAGMENTS
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52 Summa
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54 On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People
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56 (Ash-boughs)
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58 St. Winefred's Well
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Act I.
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Act II.
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61 Cheery Beggar
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64 The Woodlark
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65 Moonrise
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67 On a piece of music
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70 To his Watch
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72 Epithalamion
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40
(Carrion Comfort)

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man
In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan,
O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?
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Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.
Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,
Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, chéer.
Cheer whom though? the hero whose heaven-handling flung me, fóot tród
Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.
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