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Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring
Nothing is so beautiful as spring --
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. -- Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem Theme: Spring
Gerard Manley Hopkins's other poems:- Ribblesdale
- Harry Ploughman
- Strike, Churl
- The Loss of the Eurydice
- Cheery Beggar
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Alfred Tennyson Spring ("Birds' love and birds' song") Samuel Johnson Spring ("Stern Winter now, by Spring repress'd") Christina Rossetti Spring ("Frost-locked all the winter") William Morris Spring ("Spring am I, too soft of heart") Isaac Rosenberg Spring ("I walk and wonder") Andrew Lang Spring ("Now the bright crocus flames, and now") Robert Anderson Spring ("The snow's dissolv'd, the chilly winter's fled") Francis Ledwidge Spring ("Once more the lark with song and speed") Thomas Nashe Spring ("Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king") Janet Hamilton Spring ("Fairy Spring, in kirtle green") Alfred Douglas Spring ("Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again!") Marion Angus Spring ("THE green corn springs") William Campbell Spring ("There dwells a spirit in the budding year") Edna Millay Spring ("To what purpose, April, do you return again?") James Percival Spring ("AGAIN the infant flowers of Spring") Henry Timrod Spring ("Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air") John Lapraik Spring ("THOU goddess of the blooming Spring") Lola Ridge Spring ("A spring wind on the Bowery")
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