Nature
Hurrahing in Harvest
From Poems (1918)
SUMMER ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the
stooks rise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely
behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our
Saviour;
And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a
Rapturous love's greeting of realer, of rounder replies?
And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding
shoulder
Majestic--as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!--
These things, these things were here and but the
beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off
under his feet.
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MLA
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Hurrahing in Harvest.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/13/.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Hurrahing in Harvest.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/13/.
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