{"id":19122,"date":"2013-02-26T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19122"},"modified":"2013-02-24T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T08:38:09","slug":"tuesday-poem-pied-beauty-by-gerard-manley-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/tuesday-poem-pied-beauty-by-gerard-manley-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;Pied Beauty&#8221; by Gerard Manley Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Glory be to God for dappled things \u2013<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<\/div>\n<div>Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\u2019 wings;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Landscape plotted and pieced \u2013 fold, fallow, and plough;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And \u00e1ll tr\u00e1des, their gear and tackle and trim.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>All things counter, original, spare, strange;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whatever is fickle, freckles (who knows how?)<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<\/div>\n<div>He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Praise him.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Poem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a very famous poem so I am not going to talk too much about it except to say that I have always loved it for its intrinsic joy and delight in life, and also for the love of and the beauty of the language that shines through in every line. Read it, enjoy it: here, dear readers, is a poem that &#8216;risks delight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Poet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Gerard Manley Hopkins, try his Wikipedia biography, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins\">here<\/a>, and on Poets.org, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/284\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glory be to God for dappled things \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\u2019 wings; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Landscape plotted and pieced \u2013 fold, fallow, and plough; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And \u00e1ll tr\u00e1des, their gear and tackle and trim. . All things counter, original, spare, strange; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19145,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions\/19145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}