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Gerard Hopkins
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Quotes by Gerard Hopkins

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And my lament / Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent / To dearest him that lives alas! away.

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I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.

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This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse / Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.

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That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

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O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.


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O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall / Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap / May who ne'er hung there.

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O then if in my lagging lines you miss / The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation.
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