Religion

Pied Beauty

by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889

From Poems (1918)

Religion

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 àll tràdes, 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.

MLA

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Pied Beauty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/12/.

Chicago

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Pied Beauty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/12/.

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