A month of poets: today, Gerard Manley Hopkins
In celebration of National Poetry Month, I’ll feature a poem here every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in April. Any reflections on today’s selection?
“Pied Beauty”
from Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major WorksGlory 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 all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                         Praise Him.
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