Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain,/ Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. / Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. - Gerard Hopkins Quotes
Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain,/ Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. / Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Gerard Hopkins
 Work

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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. - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

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.

Gerard Hopkins

 Ecology
I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Gerard Hopkins

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

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

Gerard Hopkins

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

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

Gerard Hopkins

 Darkness
All trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

All trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

Gerard Hopkins

 
All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep

Gerard Hopkins

 
Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

Gerard Hopkins

 God
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Hopkins

 Nature Wilderness
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end? - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Gerard Hopkins

 Art
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 lightning to hear him sing. - Gerard Hopkins Quotes

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 lightning to hear him sing.

Gerard Hopkins

 Spring
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