Relationships

At the Wedding March

by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889

From Poems (1918)

Relationships

GOD with honour hang your head,
Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed
With lissome scions, sweet scions,
Out of hallowed bodies bred.

Each be other's comfort kind:
Déep, déeper than divined,
Divine charity, dear charity,
Fast you ever, fast bind.

Then let the March tread our ears:
I to him turn with tears
Who to wedlock, his wonder wedlock,
Déals tríumph and immortal years.

MLA

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “At the Wedding March.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/27/.

Chicago

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “At the Wedding March.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/27/.

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