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Pied Poem
Switching gears here… Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of my favorite poets. Here is “Pied Beauty”: GLORY be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their [...]
Posted on March 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm by Victoria Olsen · Permalink
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In: nineteenth century, poetry, rhetoric · Tagged with: "Pied Beauty", Gerard Manley Hopkins
In: nineteenth century, poetry, rhetoric · Tagged with: "Pied Beauty", Gerard Manley Hopkins