Time & Brevity

Spring and Fall

by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889

From Poems (1918)

Time & Brevity

MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Áh! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

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to a young child

MLA

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Spring and Fall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/30/.

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Spring and Fall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/30/.

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