tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102642852012-02-06T09:32:07.845-08:00Gabriel McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698396614636329292noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10264285.post-1123878775832139632005-08-12T13:29:00.000-07:002006-03-21T16:38:06.976-08:00Pied Beauty<br />Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)<br /><br /><br />GLORY be to God for dappled things—<br /><a name="1"></a><br />For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<br /><a name="2"></a><br />For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<br /><a name="3"></a><br />Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;<br /><a name="4"></a><br />Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;<br /><a name="5"></a><br />And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.<br /><a name="6"></a><br /><br />All things counter, original, spare, strange;<br /><a name="7"></a><br />Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<br /><a name="8"></a><br />With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<br /><a name="9"></a><br />He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<br /><br /><a name="10"></a>Praise him.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10264285-112387877583213963?l=dappledthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gabriel McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698396614636329292noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10264285.post-1106894842555318532005-01-27T22:46:00.000-08:002006-03-21T16:37:44.853-08:00I am focusing on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10264285-110689484255531853?l=dappledthings.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gabriel McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698396614636329292noreply@blogger.com0