Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes about Spring

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beautiful, Weed, Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Spring, Blow, Lilies

'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Faith, Morning, Spring

'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, Grass and green world all together, Star-eyed strawberry breasted Throstle above Her nested Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin Forms and warms the life within, And bird and blossom swell In sod or sheath or shell.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mother, Stars, Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.32, Courier Corporation

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Children, Lying, Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics