Arts & Sciences

What being in rank-old nature

by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889

From Poems (1918)

Arts & Sciences

WHAT being in rank-old nature should earlier have that
breath been
That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful
peals?--
A bush-browed, beetle-brówed bíllow is it?
With a soúth-wésterly wínd blústering, with a tide rolls
reels
Of crumbling, fore-foundering, thundering all-surfy seas
in; seen
Únderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
. . . . . . . .
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “What being in rank-old nature.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/52/.

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “What being in rank-old nature.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/52/.

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