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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:- May Magnificat
- Harry Ploughman
- Barnfloor and Winepress
- Strike, Churl
- My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity on
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Samuel Johnson Spring ("Stern Winter now, by Spring repress'd") Christina Rossetti Spring ("Frost-locked all the winter") Alfred Tennyson Spring ("Birds' love and birds' song") Isaac Rosenberg Spring ("I walk and wonder") William Morris Spring ("Spring am I, too soft of heart") Francis Ledwidge Spring ("Once more the lark with song and speed") Thomas Nashe Spring ("Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king") Andrew Lang Spring ("Now the bright crocus flames, and now") Janet Hamilton Spring ("Fairy Spring, in kirtle green") Robert Anderson Spring ("The snow's dissolv'd, the chilly winter's fled") Alfred Douglas Spring ("Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again!") William Campbell Spring ("There dwells a spirit in the budding year") James Percival Spring ("AGAIN the infant flowers of Spring") John Lapraik Spring ("THOU goddess of the blooming Spring") Edna Millay Spring ("To what purpose, April, do you return again?") Henry Timrod Spring ("Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air") Lola Ridge Spring ("A spring wind on the Bowery") Marion Angus Spring ("THE green corn springs") Celia Thaxter Spring ("The alder by the river") Charles White Spring ("The day is mild, the spring is here")
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