Inversnaid -- Gerard Manley Hopkins

       
(Poem #3) Inversnaid
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

A windpuff-bonnet of fawn-froth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, fell-frowning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.

Degged with dew, dappled with dew,
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

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 Manley Hopkins
taken from the complete works, published posthumously in 1910 (edited by
robert bridges).

gerard manley hopkins was a jesuit priest and scholar, and his poetic
themes centre around faith, doubt and reason. i like this particular
poem, though, for its sheer lyrical beauty.

hopkins' study of welsh led him to the creation of 'sprung rhythm'
(where metre depends only on the stressed syllables and ignores the
unstressed) and counterpoint. this (and his other structural
innovations) placed him far ahead of his time; indeed, many consider
hopkins to be the father of modern verse.

you can read more about hopkins at
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Hopkins.html
[broken link] http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/hopkins/hopkins12.html

thomas.

74 comments:

  1. "Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." indeed! ...
    And God bless the grass.

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    God bless the grass

    God bless the truth
    That fights towards the sun
    They roll the lies over it
    And think that it is done
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    And after a while
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    God bless the grass
    That's gentle and low
    The roots they are deep
    And the will is to grow
    And God bless the Truth
    The friend of the poor
    And the wild grass growing
    At the poor man's door.
    God bless the grass

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  2. a great poem, goes to the heart.

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  3. A windpuff-bonnet of fawn-froth
    Turns and twindles over the broth
    Of a pool so pitchblack, fell-frowning,
    It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning

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