Glory be to God for dappled things — All things counter, original, spare, strange; —<\/p>\n It’s been a while since I posted a poem here, but this poem—and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins generally—is a favourite. I love the sense of delight in the poem and the intense observation of nature and differing aspects and textures of the world. I also love Hopkins’ famous sprung rhythm and use of alliteration, which remain distinctive but were very different from the poetic norms of the Victorian era.<\/p>\n Gerard Manley Hopkins, who converted to Catholicism in adulthood and was ordained as a Jesuit, is now regarded as one of the more significant poets of the Victorian era, although his work was not published until some time after his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things — …For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; ……For rose-moles all in stipple on trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; …Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; ……And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; …Whatever is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105","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=35105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35110,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35105\/revisions\/35110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n…<\/span>For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
\n……<\/span>For rose-moles all in stipple on trout that swim;
\nFresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
\n…<\/span>Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
\n……<\/span>And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.<\/p>\n
\n…<\/span>Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
\n……<\/span>With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
\nHe fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
\n………………………………<\/span>Praise him.
\n.<\/span>
\nGerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 – 1889<\/p>\n